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THE 

POEMS 

AND 

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(including 
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OF 

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AND 

HIS MUCH-WISHED FOEM OF PEAYEE; 
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May it please your Grace, 

Having done me the honour to 
suggest that I should edit and re-print the 
1 Pisgah-Sight of Palestine Skad which only the 
pressure of other engagements compelled me 
to deny myself of, — I cannot hesitate in regarding 
you as a lover of Thomas Fuller. I ask your 
kind acceptance, therefore, of the dedication of 
this little volume of his Poems and Verse- 
Translations. 

With much regard and gratitude for theo- 
logical and spiritual benefit received from your 

Works, 

I am, 
Very Faithfully your Grace's 
Obliged, 
ALEXAKDER B. GR03ART. 



INTEODUCTION. 




SUSPECT that the first impression 
of those who hear of the present 
little volume or who take it up, 
will be that it is some such literary quiz as 
Sir Walter Scott half-thought of perpetrating 
in relation to David Hume. A short quotation 
from his genial letter will explain: — 'We visited 
Corby Castle on our return to Scotland,' he 
writes to Morritt, ' which remains in point of 
situation as beautiful as when its walks were 
celebrated by David Hume, in the only rhymes 
he was ever know to be guilty of. Here they 
are, from a pane of glass in an inn at Carlisle — 

Here chickens in eggs for breakfast sprawl, 
Here godless boys God's glories squall, 
Here Scotchmen's heads do guard the wall, 
But Corby's walks atone for all.' 

Then playfully, ' Would it not be a good quiz to 
advertise the Poetical Works of David Hume, 
with notes, critical, historical, and so forth — with 
an historical inquiry into the use of eggs for 
breakfast, a physical discussion on the causes of 



INTRODUCTION. 

their being addled, a history of the English 
Church music and of the choir of Carlisle in 
particular; a full account of the affair of 1745, 
with the trials, last speeches and so forth, of the 
poor plaids who were strapped up at Carlisle ; 
and lastly, a full and particular description of 
Corby, with the genealogy of every family who 
ever possessed if? I think even without more 
than the usual ivaste of margin, the Poems of 
David would make a decent twelve shilling 
touch. I shall think about it when I have 
exhausted mine own century of inventions.' 1 
Even students of Fuller I find have never so 
much as seen his longest ' Divine Poem/ are 
unfamiliar with his ' Panegyrick,' and have over- 
looked his lesser things. So that unless I much 
mistake this volume of f Poems and Translations' 
bearing his sunny name will come as a surprise 
— a pleasant surprise surely — to not a few of his 
lovers. But they will not be c bamboozled ' (if 
the slang word be allowable) with any such 
' ' Notes ' and ' Inquiries ' as loveable Sir Walter 
jocosely designed for Hume's quatrain. 

I had resolved to edit and print a limited 
private edition of i David's Hainous Sinne, Heartie 
Repentance, Heavie Punishment,' and the 'Pane- 

1 Life by Lockliart c. xxxv. 



INTRODUCTION. 7 

gyrick,' as on talking with fellow-reverers of 
Fuller, I discovered that not one in a score had 
once met with them, while all were wishful to 
have them if only they might be purchased under 
Bibliomania-price. My own copy of the former 
had cost me £5, 5s., and the latter <£2, 2s.; 1 
and inquiry soon satisfied that in the book- 
market they were deemed cheap at these (com- 
paratively) high prices, e.g. in the British 
Museum copy which is bound in saffron morocco, 
but cropped mended and soiled, there is a memo- 
randum that it had sold for <£17 at Brand's Sale 
(whose book-plate is on it) \ and for the 'Pane- 
gyrick' — which is in virgin state, uncut edges — I 
was soon offered <£3, 3s. So that — independent 
of intrinsic worth and interest — if these could be 
faithfully and worthily reproduced for fewer pence 
than the pounds they readily fetch in the original 
editions, I thought a little literary service should 
be rendered thereby. But on proceeding to carry 
this out it soon appeared that more was demanded. 



1 A copy of David's Hainous Sinne, etc., was recently 
on sale by Mr Joseph Lilly (a bookseller of the fine old 
stamp), Covent Garden, London, thus described, ' a Poem, 
small octavo, calf extra, gilt edges, the last leaf containing 
the concluding (only) verses reprinted, £5, 5s.' I believe 
it was snapped up instantly. Bindley's copy brought 
£5, 15s. 6d. Hibbert's, which was the same copy, £6, 6s. 



O INTRODUCTION. 

For on turning to my marked copies of the 
'Worthies,' ' Church-History,' 'Pisgah-Sight:' in 
short to Fuller's complete "Works, I came on 
many 'Verses' — mainly translations from the 
Latin — having, occasionally at least, the salt of 
wit, the dainty fancies, the inimitable word-play 
and alliteration, the brilliant conceits — as of 
ancient tores of gold — the kindly humour, the 
soft delicate pitifulness, of this most loveable of 
England's Worthies. [I don't — as usual — call 
him ' dear old Fuller : ' for alas ! he died aged 
only 53]. All this being so, I concluded to give 
the whole of his Poems and Verse-Translations. 
Still further : My attention having been oblig- 
ingly called by Mr W. C. Hazlitt to his com- 
munication to Notes and Queries (3d Series vii. 
pp. 352, 353), concerning a volume formerly 
belonging to him, wherein were written in a 
contemporary hand a large number of Epigrams 
by ' Mr Tho. Fuller,' inquiries were set on foot 
to discover its present possessor. By the kind 
zeal of Mr F. S. Ellis, Bookseller, 33 King 
Street, Covent Garden, London, I speedily re- 
covered the precious little book, and obtained 
unreserved permission to use whatever I might 
wish in it. The Epigrams authenticate them- 
selves : many being truly Fullerian. I congratu- 
late myself on my rare good fortune in having it 



INTRODUCTION. 9 

in my power to add this treasure- trove to my 
collection. I beg to return right hearty thanks 
to its owner (H. H. Gibbs Esq., London), for his 
ready liberality that enables me to do this. 

Thus the present volume — as its title-page 
bears — not only furnishes Fuller's larger Poems, 
but 'for the first time' brings together the minor 
' Verses ' scattered up and down his numerous 
prose writings, and no fewer than fifty-nine 
hitherto unpublished Epigrams by him. 

Regarding ' the Poems and Translations ' in- 
trinsically, I prefix — in its place — the Critcism of 
his longest poem by Oldys. P>ut he has missed 
its biographic interest and its most characteristic 
turns and touches. Biographically it is to be 
remembered that as 'David's Hainous Sinne,' etc. 
was published in 1631 it was probably composed 
when he was little out of his ' teens.' — So that 
his first known production confirms Charles 
Lamb's penetrative insight in his winsome words 
on his genius : ' The writings of Fuller are usually 
designated by the title of quaint and with suffi- 
cient reason : for such was his natural bias to 
conceits, that I doubt not, upon most occasions, 
it would have been going out of his way to have 
expressed himself out of them.' In his earliest as 
in his last book is the same ' Roman hand,' the 
same inevitableness, naturalness and spontaneity 



10 INTRODUCTION. 

of ' quaint ' thought and wording. I cull a few 
examples of word-play from ' David's Hainous 
Sinne : ' and sure I am that no one familiar with 
Fuller will fail to detect in them the very 
essentia of his after-style. Thus he puts poor 
Uriah's eager obedience in carrying the king's 
false and fatal ' Letter,' — 

On his journey past 
With speed, who needed not to make such hast 
Whose death had he gone slow did come too fast. 

[I. st. 33.] 

Again, wisely as well as wittily : 

Where 

Kings bid and God forbids, we must forbeare 

[Ibid. st. 44.] 

And of Uriah finely — 

Thus of his friends betray'd by subtill traine : 
Assaulted of his foes with might and maine 
He lost Ms life, not conquered but slain 

[Ibid. st. 46.] 

So of the 'infant newly borne, now neare to dye' 

very tenderly — 

See with what silent signes and sighes full faine 
Poore heart it would expresse where lies the paine 
Complaining that it knowes not to complaine 

[III. st. 3.] 

Again — 

His tongue did never lye that cannot speke. 

[Ibid, st. 5.] 



INTRODUCTION. 1 1 

Then follows this dainty metaphor — 

As when a tender rose begins to blow 
Yet scarce unswadled is, some wanton maide 
Pleas'd with the smell, allured with the show 
Will not reprive it till it hath di splay' d 

The folded leaves : but to her brest applies 

Th' abortive budd, where coffined it lyes 

Losing the blushing dye before it dies, [Ibid. st. 7.] 

Here is a genuinely Fullerian and later 

George CRABBE-ian alliteration — on ' the poor 

larke imprison' d in the cage of a kite's claws' 

vainly pleading for escape 

On her that pray'd so long, doth prey at last. 

[Ibid. st. 14.]i 

Again : of Absalom's mock-condescension — 

He steales their hearts by taking of their hands. 

[Ibid. st. 25.] 
Incisively too 

A saint dissembled is a double devile. [Ibid. st. 28.] 
Asse, that for wit his rider did exceed. [Ibid. st. 34.] 

Then, more fully and with still more characteris- 
tic touches : 

1 We have many like lines e.g. of the c asse ' whereon 
Absalom rode, set free 

Now rid of him that rid on her before. [III. st. 45.] 

So— 
A fruitfull wildernesse of fruitlesse weeds. [Ibid. st. 48.] 
Seldome things done speedily doe speed. [Ibid. st. 53.] 
Losing their gettings, gaining what they lost. 

[Ibid. st. 68. J 



12 INTRODUCTION. 

A chayne of hempe lie to his necke made fast 
By tying of which knot he did untye 
The knot of soule and body, and at last 
Stopping the passage of his breath, thereby 
A passage for his soule wide opened hee : 
Thus traytors rather than they should goe free 
Themselves the hangman of themselves will bee. 

[Ibid. st. 37.] 

Again : 

My sonne ! whose body had of grace the fill 
My sonne ! whose soule was so devoid of grace. 

[Ibid. st. 50.] 

Further: This 'Divine poem' is of biographic 
interest and value in that it reveals Fuller's 
Calvinism at the time (at least) — on two leading 
' doctrines ' e.g. Predestination or Election. 

. . Soone with a word the Lord appeas'd this strife 
Injoyning silence till he did vnfold 
That precious volume cald the Booke of Life 
Which He the Printer priviledg'd of old 
Containing those He freely did imbrace : 
Nor ever would I wish an higher grace 
Than in this Booke to hae the lowest place. 

Within this Booke he sought for David's name 
Which having found He proffered to blot 
(And David surely well deserv'd the same 
That did his nature so with sinne bespot) 

Though none are blotted out but such as never 
Were written in ; nothing God's love can sever ; 
Once written there are written there for ever. 

[II. st. 5, 6.] 



INTRODUCTION. 13 

Similarly on Original Sin : — 

But ah ! this infant's gnilt from him proceeds 
That knew the least when most he sought to know : 
Who most was nak't when cloathed in his weeds 
Best cloathed then when naked he did goe : 
In vayne the wit of wisest men doth strive 
To cut off this intayle, that doth derive 
Death unto all when first they are alive. 

[III. st. 6.] 

It is only due to our "Worthy to add his ' charit- 
able ' stanza on the absence of the rite of baptism : 

So this babe's life, newly begun, did end 

Which sure receiv'd the substance though not sign'd 

With grace's seale : God freely doth attend 

His ordinance, but will not be confin'd 

Thereto when 'tis not neglected nor despis'd 
They that want water are by fire baptiz'd 
Those sanctify'd that ne're were circumcis'd. 

[III. st. 8.] 

Besides these theological opinions we have in this 
Poem — and elsewhere — unmistakeable utterances 
on kindred matters. I select these four — prefix- 
ing headings — 

1. Drunkenness: 

My prayers for friends prosperity and wealth 
Shall ne're be wanting : but if I refuse 
To hurt myself by drinking others' health 
Oh let ingenious natures mee excuse : 

If men bad manners this esteeme, then I 

Desire to be esteem'd unmannerly 

That to live well will suffer wine to dye. 

[I. st. 27.] 



14 INTRODUCTION. 

2. Preaching : 

Goe fond affectors of a flanting straine 

Whose sermons strike at sinnes with slenting blowes ! 

Give me the man that's powerfull and plaine 

The monster Vice vnmasked to expose : 

Such preachers doe the soule and marrow part 

And cause the guilty conscience to smart 

Such please no itching eares but peirce the heart. 

[II. st. 22. J 

3. Female-humility : 

Ah ! happy age when ladies learn't to bake 
And when kings daughters knew to knead a cake. 
Eebecka was esteem'd of comely hew 
Yet not so nice her comelinesse to keepe 
But that shee water for the cammells drew : 
Rachell was faire, yet fedd her father's sheepe 
But now for to supply Eebecka' s place 
Or doe as Eachell did is counted base : 
Our dainty dames would take it in disgrace. 1 

[III. st. 11, 12.] 



1 This reminds me of an anecdote of a quaint old Scotch 
' minister ' of the last century (Mr Oomrie of Pennicuik). 
His Congregation had been engaged in making a pecuniary 
effort to pay off debt on the Church by a kind of anticipa- 
tion of what are now called Bazaars. It did not prove a 
success ; and mainly through the lack of zeal of the ladies. 
Chagrined, Mr Comrie in a speech afterwards, looking the 
gay-dressed fair ones full in the face remarked dryly, ' The 
leddies noo-a-days pit me in mind o' the Lilies [All atten- 
tion expecting a compliment] — they toil not neither do they 
spinS 



INTRODUCTION. 15 

4. False-friendship : 

Before such kisses come vpon my face 

Oh ! let the deadly scorpion me sting 

Yea rather than such armes should me imbrace 

Let curling snakes about my body cling : 

Than such faire words I'de rather the fowle 

Vntuned schreeching of the dolefull owle 

Or heare the direfull mountaine-wolfe to howle. 

[Ibid. st. 26.] 

I must leave the reader to dig for like nuggets. 
Preceded by George Peele in his i Love of 
King David and Pair Bet'sabe with the Tra- 
gedie of Absalom' (1599) and coming into com- 
parison with the i Davideis ; a heroical poem 
on the troubles of David/ of Abraham Cowley 
— his contemporary and fellow-student at Cam- 
bridge — Puller's first Poem loses nothing beside 
them. 

The 'Panegyrick' has happy lines : and was the 
genuine utterance of our large-hearted Worthy's 
loyalty to his ideal of monarchy. Hence the 
transfiguration of Charles the Second. Histori- 
cally it is valuable as an evidence of the glowing 
hopes that centred in the i merry monarch.' The 
actual ' Life ' Puller did not witness. He was 
' gone ' before the brightness of the exile-years 
paled into foulest Mght. High-pitched as is his 
praise it is low compared with innumerable con- 



1 6 INTRODUCTION. 

temporary ' Welcomes ' still preserved in the 
British Museum and elsewhere. 1 

The Translation-verses I have already char- 
acterized : though truth to tell many of them 
only two faithfully answer his own apologetic 
description, ' Yet because some love poetry, either 
very good or very had, that if they cannot learn 
from it, they may laugh at it, they are here in- 
serted.' 2 Others are in daintiness of wording 
and quaintness of their turns as the Songs of 
Shakespere and Jonson to their Plays. The 
' Flowers ' must lose in their transplantation (or 
cutting) even with the words as so much living 

1 One of the most astounding of these productions is the 
following KAPO'AOY rpe^fieyKTrov "T&iri(pavia : The Most 
Gloriovs Star or Celestial Constellation of the Pleiades or 
Charles Waine. Appearing and shining most brightly in 
a Miraculous manner in the Face of the Sun at Noon day at 
the Nativity of our Sacred Soveraign King Charles 2. Pre- 
saging his Majesties Exaltation to future Honour and Great- 
ness, Transcending not only the most potent Christian 
Prince, in Europe, but by Divine Designment ordained to 
be the most Mighty Monarch in the Vniverse. Never any 
Starre having appeared before at the birth of any (the 
Highest humane Herd) except our Saviour. Behold a King 
shall reign in righteousness. Psal. 32. 1. By Edw. Mathew 
of the Middle Temple Esq. London, Printed for the use and 
benefit of William Byron, Gent. 1662 [12°]— Title-page— 
Ep: Dedy pp. 12— Treatise pp. 156 — Two engravings 
adorn (!) the volume. 

2 ' Worthies ' [London]. 



INTRODUCTION. 17 

earth — Fuller's earth, Fuller himself would have 
said — attached : ay, were they put into ' Pots ' 
such as Keats' ' basil' grew in. Still I have 
given as much of the context in which the 
1 Verses ' occur as to impart interest. 

I do not at all claim poetic genius for 6 rare ' 
Thomas Fuller, or for independent poetic fame. 
But everything that serves to furnish insight 
into the whole nature of a great man has its own 
use and worth. It is noticeable that while he 
did not follow up his ' David's Hainous Sinne,' 
etc., with other poems of like length and kin, 
he yet kept singing unto the end. There must 
have been a string that vibrated to the subtle 
' breath' when the music — and words to it — was 
so inevitable and irrepressible. Biographers and 
critics have failed as it seems to us, to recognise 
this element in the large, rich, most winsome 
nature of our Worthy. 

I scrupulously adhere to the original text 
throughout, retaining Fuller's own orthography: 1 



1 1 must ask the student, however, to keep in mind that 
with very few exceptions the present apostrophe of the 
possessive case was unemployed by Fuller and his contem- 
poraries— e.g., wo read not Truth's but Truths, Romes not 
Rome's. I have also somewhat modified the use of capitals 
and italics, which are used very arbitrarily. 

B 



18 INTRODUCTION. 

agreeing herein with the venerated Keble that 
' in one respect especially, i.e. as a specimen and 
monument of language, ancient hooks lose very 
much of their value by the neglect of ancient 
orthography.' 1 For popular, practical use, mo- 
dernization of spelling is not only permissible, 
but absolutely necessary. On the other hand, 
to the circle to whom this reprint addresses itself, 
faithfulness to the author is a sine qua non. I 
have used all the care that I could command : 
and I venture to hope not in vain. 2 A few 
Notes explanatory of names and references, bear 
my initial G. Those of Fuller himself, F. Of 
course in the Translation- Verses and originals 
from his prose Works the reader must turn to 
the several places for further information as to 
names and things introduced. It were mis- 
placed annotation to enlarge on these in such a 
small venture as the present. 

Besides the Poems and Verse-Translations 

1 Keble's Hooker, Vol. I. : Preface page viii (edn. 1841, 
3 vols. 8°). I have marked the noticeable words in foot- 
notes. 

2 I cannot expect to be found faultless, for even so 
scholarly and able an editor as Dr Nuttall in his edition of 
the ' Worthies ' very often errs — e.g.., in No. LIV. of our 
extracts from the 'Worthies' he misreads 'paths for parts,' 
and reduces the sweet couplet to nonsense : in No. LXIV. 
for 'townsmen' reads 'townmen.' 



INTRODUCTION. 19 

and Epigrams as enumerated, I give as an 
Appendix the ' Form of Prayer ' used by Dr 
Fuller. The book in which it is contained is 
of the very rarest : and hence in Notes and 
Queries and elsewhere this i Form ' has been 
repeatedly inquired for — in vain. To the eru- 
dite Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge (W. 
Aldis Wright, Esq., M.A.) I am indebted for 
this addition to the Eulleriana of our volume. 

I close this Introduction with some pat lines 
from that finely-touched old Translator— Arthur 
Golding, which I have chanced on unreferenced 
in my Common Place Book : — 

Whoso doth attempt this Author's works to read 
Must bring with him a stayed head and judgment to 

proceed ; 
For as there be most wholesome hests and precepts to 

be found 
So are there rocks and shallow shelves to run the ship 

a-ground. 

ALEXANDER B. GROSABT. 

308 Upper Parliament Street, 
Liverpool. 

P.S. — As I send my Manuscript to the 
Printers there reaches me a reprint of i David's 
Hainous Sinne, etc., tacked on to Fuller's Party- 
coloured-Coat, a Comment on 1 Corinthians xi.,' 
etc. The volume is edited bv Mr 'William Mchols, 



20 INTRODUCTION. 

and forms one of a number of Fuller-reprints 
from the house of Tegg — most welcome ! But 
the modernisation of the orthography of the Poem 
is inexcusable. In no respect can it come into 
competition with our volume apart from its 
giving only one of the poetic productions of the 
Author. G. 





CONTENTS. 



Page 
Introduction, 5 

Oldys on ' David's Hainous Sinne,' etc., with Notes, . . 27 

I. David's Hainous Sinne, 33 

„ Heartie Eepentance, 54 

„ Heavie Punishment, 64 

II. A Panegyrick on His Majestie's Happie Eeturn, . . 91 

HI. Verses prefixed to Sparkes' ' Scintilla Altaris,' . . . 106 
IV. Ad Serenissimum Regem 110 



V. From 'Rex Redux,' 



111 



VI. Echo-Song, 112 

VH. From the 'Church History,' 112 





Page 




1. 


Alban: Martyr, . . 114 


17. 


2. 


St German, . . . 114 




3. 


On a woman who would 
enter a Church from 
which women were 


18. 




excluded, . . . 114 


19. 


4. 


Easter in Britain, . . 114 


20. 


5. 


Lines from Taliesen (?), 115 


21. 


6. 


Foundation of Univer- 


22. 




sity of Cambridge, . 116 


23. 


7. 


Victory of Oswald, . 116 




8. 


Oswald 117 


24. 


9. 


Wilfride's deprivation 






of the Bishopric of 


•25. 




York, . . .117 


26. 


10. 


Adelme,B'pofSherborn, 118 


27. 


11. 


Alba, since Rome, . 118 




12. 


Martyrdom of King Ed- 
mond, .... 118 


28. 


13. 


Alfred and Edward, . 119 


29. 


14. 


Dunstan, . . .119 


30. 


15. 


The good daughter of a 


31. 




bad father, . . 120 


32. 


16. 


Francis I. captive in 


33. 




Spain, .... 121 


34. 



. Translations of Scrip- 
ture, . . . .121 
. Cuthbert receiving the 
Communion in the 
Cup, . . . 122 

. Against Marriage, . . 122 
. A'Beckett's Martyrdom, 123 
. Henry II., . . .124 
. Hugh Nevil, . . .124 
. Richard the Lion- 
hearted, . . . 125 
. Learned Writers, 'Bale 

and Pitts,' . . . 125 
. Baconthorpe, . . . 126 
, William Occam, . . 126 
, Edward and ' native sub- 
jects,' . . .127 
, Wat Tyler and Jack 

Straw, . . . 127 

, Simon Sudbury, . . 128 
, Chaucer ' Our Homer,' . 129 
Chaucer, . . . .129 
, Eton, . . . .129 
, Retribution, . . . 130 
. Jesuits, . . . . 131 



22 



CONTENTS. 



35. Feasts of Ely Abbey. 

36. Bells, . 

37. Marshes of Mantua, 

38. John Leland to Henry 

VIII., . 

39. Against the Masse, 

40. Dr Hugh Price, 

41. Cox, Bishop of Ely, 

42. Verses by Mary Queen 

of Scots, 



131 
132 

132 

133 

133 
135 

136 

. 136 



Page 

43. Epitaph on Luke Cha- 

loner, .... 137 

44. Humphrey Eli, . . 137 

45. Gunpowder Plot, . . 137 

46. The Brothers Eainolds, 137 

47. Intended Colledge, . 138 

48. Prince Henry, . . 138 

49. The Conference, . . 139 



VHI. From ' History of University of Cambridge ' — 



1. Cambridge, . . .139 


3. Henry and Charles Bran 




2. Humphery Necton, . 140 


don, Dukes of Suffolk 


140 


IX. From ' Pisgah-Sight of Palestine '— 




(a) From letter-press. 


10. Dew, . 


144 


1. Wine of Palestine, . . 141 


11. Egypt, . . . . 


145 


2. Libanus' Yews, . . 142 


12. Mock-tears, . 


145 


3. Dagon, . . . .142 


13. Idols, . 


146 


4. Semiramis and the doves, 142 


14. Idol-calf, 


146 


5. Levite's Concubine, . 143 


(6) From the Maps. 




6. Sepulchres, . . .143 


1. Engraved title-page, 


146 


7. Tabernacle and Temple, 143 


2. Palestine, 


146 


8. Giants, . . . .144 


3. Jerusalem, 


147 


9. Horses in Sacrifice to 


4. Fragmenta Sacra, . 


147 


the Sun, . . .144 






X. From ' The Holy Warre '— 






1. Issues, .... 148 


7. King Guy, 


152 


2. Baldwine, . . .149 


8. King Bichard ' prisoner,' 


152 


3. fAlexius, . . . .150 


9. French Bhyme: Cru- 




4. King Fulk, . . .150 


sades, . 


153 


5. Frederick, . . . 151 


10. The Pastorells killed in 




6. tOonrade, . . .151 


France, 


153 


XI. From ' The Holy State '— 






1. The Elder Brother, . 153 


13. Gravitie, . . . . 


160 


2. The Younger Brother, . 154 


14. Grand Churches, . 


160 


3. Julius Scaliger, . . 154 


15. The Good Bishop, . 


160 


4. The Faithful Minister, . 155 


16. Augustine, 


161 


5. William Perkins, . . 155 


17. Kidley and Hooper, 


161 


6. Simony, . . . .156 


18. Lady Jane Grey, . 


162 


7. The Good Patron, . . 156 


19. Queen Elizabeth and 




8. Hope Disappointed, . 157 


the Spanish 'Embas- 




9. Tombes, . . . .158 


sadour,' 


162 


10. The same, . . .159 


20. Gustavus Adolphus, 


163 


11. fFinis 159 


21. Heir-apparent, 


164 


12. Moderation, . . .159 






XII. From ' The Profane State '- 






1. The Harlot, . . .164 


4. Jehu, . 


165 


2. Joan of Arc, . . .164 


5. t Abolition of Universities 


166 


3. Atheist, . . . .165 


6. The Liar, . 


166 



CONTENTS. 



23 



XIII. From ' Abel Kedevivus '- 



1. Berengarius, . 

2. John Huss, 

3. Jerome of Prague, 

4. Cranmer, 



Page 
. 166 I 
. 168 I 
. 169 I 
. 169 



5. John Fox, 

6. Fr: Junius, 

7. William Perkins, 



Page 
. 170 
. 171 
. 172 



XTV. From l Mixt Contemplations ' and ' Personal Meditations ' — 

1. All for the Present, 172 

2. Niniveh, . . 173 

3. Good Augury, 173 

4. Ovid's Line, 174 

XV. From ' The Worthies '— 



1. Scarlet Habit of Cardinals 


,174 


40. 


Higre and Adria, 


. 191 


2. Lord Chancellors, . 


174 


41. 


Thomas de la More 


191 


3. Needless Books, 


175 


42. 


Charles Butler, 


. 191 


4. Modern Pamphleteers, 


175 


43. 


William, 2d son of Ed- 


5. fHenry Keble, 


176 




ward HI., . 


. 192 


6. Charity, .... 


177 


44. 


Alexander Nequam 


. 192 


7. Surnames, 


178 


4-3. 


tWilliam of Ware, 


. 193 


8. Associates, 


178 


4(3. 


Wye-salmon, . 


. 193 


9. Descents, 


179 


47. 


Adam de Easton, 


. 193 


10. ' Haste makes Waste,' . 


179 


48. 


William Sempster, 


. 194 


11. Episcopacy and Presby- 




49. 


Humphrey Ely, 


. 194 


tery, . 


180 


50. 


Bosamund, 


. 194 


12. Living Persons, 


180 


51. 


Sir Bobert Cotton, 


. 194 


13. Numerousness of Writers, 181 


52. 


Interpretation of a 


Pro- 


14. Birth-place, 


181 




verb, . 


. 195 


15. English ape the French, 


181 


•53. 


Germans, 


. 195 


16. tRoyal Children, . 


181 


54. 


fEdmund. voungest son 


17. Sir John Mason, 


182 




of Henry VIL, 


. 195 


18. Ancient Gentry, 


182 


55. 


Sir James Hales, 


. 195 


19. tBichard Cox and Prince 




•53. 


Bichard Fletcher, 


. 195 


Edward, 


182 


•57. 


Sir Thomas Wyat, 


. 196 


20. Dame Hester Temple. 


182 


58. 


New Kings, 


. 196 


21. Baskets, . . . . 


183 


59. 


Wills, 


. 196 


22. Matthew Paris, 


183 


60. 


Worth, . 


. 196 


23. Simon Steward, 


183 


61. 


Fleet-hounds, . 


. 196 


24. Beestone Castle, 


1S3 


62. 


Grey-hounds, . 


. 197 


25. fDaniel King, . 


184 


63. 


Mastiffs, . 


. 197 


26. Dreams, .... 


184 


64. 


Lost ' Commons,' 


. 197 


27. Tongilian, 


185 


6-5. 


Ayscough, Bp. of Sarum, 197 


28. Cornish, .... 


185 


66. 


Thomas Goodrich, 


. 197 


29. Michael Blaunpayn, 


185 


67. 


Hampton-Court, 


. 198 


30. Kichard Carew and Sir 




68. 


Fulke de Brent and his 


Philip Sidney, . 


187 




Wife, . 


. 198 


31. Sympathy, 




187 


69. 


fKatherine, 3d dau 


ghter 


32. John Salkeld, . 




187 




of Henry VHX, 


. 198 


33. Ohatsworth, . 




187 


70. 


fWives of Henry VIIL, . 199 


34. Buxton Well, . 




188 


71. 


William Cotton, D.D., . 199 


35. Battle of Alcaser, 




188 


72. 


Edmund Spenser, 


. 199 


36. Sir Francis Drake, 




188 


73. 


London, . 


. 199 


37. Samuel Ward, 




189 


74. 


Charles H., 


. 200 


38. Sir Henry Killigrew, . 


190 


75. 


Bishop Aylmer, 


. 200 


39. fThomas Barington and 




76. 


' An end,' 


. 200 


' spouse,' 




190 


77. 


William Lilly, 


200 



24 



CONTENTS. 



78. 
79. 

80. 
81. 

82. 
83. 
84. 
85. 
86. 
87. 



Sir Robert Dallington, . 201 
John Fletcher, the 



Dramatist,' 
Peter Pateshull, 
Laxton, . 
Friars, . 
Thomas Magnus, 
Venison, 
Quarrels, 



201 
202 

202 
202 
203 
203 
204 



tWife of Peter Martyr, 204 

"War, . . . .205 

88. Sword, . . . .205 

89. Kalph of Shrewsbury, . 205 

90. fWilliam Adams, . . 205 

91. William Grocine, . . 206 

92. Staffordshire, . . 206 

93. From Virgil, . . .207 

94. tCathedral Churches, . 207 

95. Bury, . . . .207 

96. St Edmund, . . .207 

97. Stephen G-ardiner, . 208 

98. Lydgate's Epitaph, . 208 

99. Samuel Ward, . . 208 

100. Sir William Cordal, . 209 

101. Parkhurst to Jewel, . 209 



102. 
103. 
104. 
105. 
106. 
107. 



Page 
William Ockham, . 210 
Epigram, . . . 210 
Dr Barlow, . . .210 
Sir Thomas Shirley, . 210 
Heraldry-rhyme, . . 210 
Baucis and Philemon: 
applied to Mr and Mrs 
Underhill, . . .210 
Patrons, . . . .211 
Customs, . . . 211 
Queen Jane Seymour, . 211 
Bonner, . . . .212 

Geat 212 

Daphne, . . . .212 
Eustathius de Faucon- 



bridge, 
fThomas Johnson, 
Robert the Scribe, 
Rhyme, . 
Cathedral of York, 
Albane Hill, . 
Rhymes, 

William Breton, . 
Wonders, 
Richard Vaughan, 



212 

213 
, 213 

213 
, 213 
, 213 
, 214 
, 214 

214 
, 214 



XVT. Epitaph on Denys Rolle, Esq., 215 

XVH. From ' Andronicus,' 216 



XVIII. Hitherto Unpublished Epigrams- 



1. Adam, 


221 


24. Paul's Jorney to Damas- 




2. Noah, .... 


221 


cus, 


226 


3. Leah, .... 


221 


25. Philistines, 


226 


4. Joseph and his Mistress 


222 


26. Michal's Mockinge, 


227 


5. Ziporah, . 


222 


27. On Peter's words 'shal 




6. Moses smiteinge ye Rock, 222 


I smite ? ' . 


227 


7. Batle with Amalecke, . 


222 


28. Bugbears, 


227 


8. Joshauah, 


223 


29. Sampson, 


227 


9. Alter Ed., 


223 


30. Manasse, . 


227 


10. Sampson's Jawe-bone, 


223 


31. Jacob, 


227 


11. Ephraimites, . 


223 


32. Noah's dove, . 


228 


12. Elijah, .... 


223 


33. A prayer, 


228 -x 


13. Zacheus, .... 


224 


34. Peter's Sinkinge, . 


228 


14. Powder-plot, . 


224 


35. On his Successors, . 


228 


15. Vaine Excuses, 


224 


36. On pride in cloaths, 


228 


16. Gallants Cloakes, . 


224 


37. Zacheus, . 


228 


17. Popish Interpretation of 




38. Musculus, 


228 


Scripture, . 


224 


39. One more knave than 




18. Sin, 


224 


foole, . 


229 


19. Whether Scripture or 




40. David's three Worthys, 


229 


tradition ye mother of 




41. Sampson, 


229 


faith, . 


225 


42. A prayer, 


229 


20. Pope Innocent, 


225 


43. On ye men of Sodom, . 


229 


21. Corn-hoarders, 


226 


44. Naboth accused, 


230 


22. On Joseph's Mistress, 


226 


45. Jacob, . 


230 


23. Jacob, .... 


226 


46. Ehud, . . 


230 







CONTENTS. 25 






Page 


Page 


47. 


Israelites in ye Wilder- 


54. Isaac, . . . .232 




ness, . 


. 230 


55. Sampson's weapons, . 232 


48. 


Perseverance, . 


. 230 


56. Jepthse's daughter, . 232 


49. 


James and John wish- 


57. Ely ye priest, . . .232 




inge fire on ye Samari- 


58. Sampson and John Bap- 




tans, 


. 230 


tist, . . . .232 


50. 


Paul's danger, 


. 231 


59. Christ Lookinge on Peter, 233 


51. 


Jael, 


. 231 


Notes on Epigrams, . . 233 


52. 


Hezekiah, 


. 231 





53. 


Jehoshaphat, . 


. 231 


Appendix — Form of Prayer, 237 



*** Owing to an oversight, the verses from the ' Profane 
State ' in our book are numbered XI. instead of XII., and 
those that follow ought to have continued XIII., XIV., 
XV., XVL, XVIL, XVIIL Notice that f opposite verses 
indicate that they are original, not translated. G. 






I LDYS on ' David's Hainous Sinne,' 
etc., from Biographia Britannica [Yol. 
iii. page 2050, folio.] ' The first per- 
formance of our author that has appeared to us in 
print, being a divine poem, very rare to be met 
with, and having had no description of it, the fol- 
lowing account may not be unacceptable to the 
curious. It is entitled . . A critical reader of 
poetry might find matters of remark in it; either to 
commend in some agreeable descriptions, natural 
similies, and instructive reflections ; or to censure 
in some few parts of the style, which were fashion- 
able elegancies in those times : but in the whole 
promising that had he persevered in the study and 
culture of poetry, his genius might have advanced 
him to some considerable rank among those con- 
temporaries who were then favorites of the Muses. 
His good sense and ingenuity at that age is dis- 
tinguishable enough; his versification is more 
compact or limited, and usually flows with 
smoother cadence than that of some riper wits 



28 OLDYS ON 

of great name in those days. Among other 
observable parts, the very proposition and in- 
vocation are very comprehensive, solemn, and 
regular : the persuasions of David by the Spirit 
and the Mesh ; with the description of Uriah's 
drunkenness, are very natural : the obsequious 
offer of the Elements to destroy David upon his 
transgression, and after his restitution to relieve 
and cherish him, are somewhat picturesque, and 
touching upon Spencer's imag[e]ry in miniature : 
his comparison of those variable elements upon this 
occasion, to temporising courtiers, who will fawn 
upon a minister when he is restored to favour, as 
fast as they flouted him in disgrace, looks to have 
something in it perfectly alive ; and so does that 
figure wherein we may imagine that we see 
Absalom cringing with supple neck and knees 
about the court, to gather up what alms and 
fragments he could of popular favour and interest, 
by seizing upon one man's hand to steal away 
his heart, and sucking out the soul of another 
with deceitful kisses \ inquiring the name of this, 
the business of that, and the country of t'other, 
to serve them all ! prostituting his promises and 
enslaving himself to errant slaves : in whom also 
we have a further glimpse of pride itself, grovel- 
ling to be exalted to grandeur, and exercising all 
the abject spirit of the most beggarly poor, to 



david's hainous sinne. 29 

worm itself into riches : or as one author reads 
it— 

1 Proud men are base to compass their desires ; 
They lowest crouch that highest do aspire.' x 

But this is a picture not near so agreable as that 
of plain-dealing Nathan, in his state of modera- 
tion ; the knowing and communicative, the kind 
and compassionate Nathan, who being skilled in 
lancing a fester'd soul, in searching and tenting 
the sore, and stanching a "bleeding-hearted sinner, 
would heal his wounds with the sovereign balsam 
of counsel, or bind up the disjointed members of 
his troubled mind. He was neither oppressed 
with that plenty which made him envied nor 
distressed with that penury which made him 
despised : his pursuits were circumscribed to his 
possessions ; and as he was in no needful want, 
he thought wanton need most despicable ; or 
that want in sufficiency was the true mother of 
contempt : so, as his desires were planted within 
the most temperate situations of command, they 



1 A similar turn of thought occurs in his Andronicus when 
the usurper ceremoniously kissed the feet of the young 
monarch. ' The spectators variously commented on his 
prodigious humility therein; some conceiving he meant to 
build high because he began so low.'' G. 



30 OLDYS ON 

produced the sweetest fruits of content ; for, as 
our poet says : 

' High hills are parch' d with heat or hid with snow, 
And humble dales, soon drown'd, that lie too low, 
Whilst happy grain on hanging hills doth grow.' x 

Descriptions more flowery might be hither trans- 
planted ; such as are so gently strewed over 
David's child in death, and others ; but as his 
gravity in this poem prevails over the natural 
gaiety of his genius, we have chosen in this histori- 
cal work to instance those few particulars which 
are rather in the edifying and profitable than 'to 
hunt after such as may run into a more pleasing 
and poetical vein. At the close of this per- 
formance our author having subsided into the 
characters of Queen Elizabeth, King James, and 
King Charles I., and lamented the loss of the 

1 Campbell nses a somewhat similar figure where he 
speaks of the stations of life best fitted for Tragedy : 

'Even situations far depressed beneath the familiar 
mediocrity of life are more picturesque and poetical, than 
its ordinary level. It is, certainly, on the virtues of the 
middling ranks of life that the strength and comforts of 
society chiefly depend, in the same manner as we look for 
the harvest, not in cliffs and precipices, but on the easy 
slope and uniform plain.' — Specimens. 

This sentiment well comports with F.'s moderate life. 
But he was no neuter ' of that lukewarm temper which 
heaven and hell doth hate.' — (Andronictis). G. = 



DAVID S HAINOUS SINNE. 



31 



Duke of Brunswick, with the discords then in 
Europe thro' the wars in the Netherlands, Den- 
mark, etc., he very properly and piously con- 
cludes that those grievances may he bewailed 
by mankind but till they are reversed by Pro- 
vidence, they are more befitting his prayers than 
his pen. 1 



I. DAVID'S HAINOUS SINNE. 



NOTE. 

The original title-page of this * Divine Poem ' will be 
found below.* The collation is as follows : Title-page 
—Dedication 1 page— Poem pp. 73— [129-]— G. 

* ( Hainovs Sinne. 

David's < Heartie Repentance. 
( Heavie Punishment. 

Exodus 35. 23. 

And every man, with whom was found Goates 

haire, and red skins of Rammes, and Badgers skins, 
brought them [to the building of the Tabernacle]. 

Ad Zoilum. 

Thy Laies thou vtt'rest not, yet carpest mine 
Carpe mine no longer, or else utter thine. 

By Thomas Fvller, Master of Arts of Sidnye 
Colledge in Cambridge. 

London, 

Printed by Tho. Cotes, for John Bellamie, dwelling at the 

three Golden Lyons in Cornehill, 1631. l 



1 It may be noted that ' Thomas Cotes ' was the printer 
and publisher of Shakespere's folio of 1632 (Second edi- 
tion). G. 




To the honorable Mr Edward, Mr William, 
and Mr Christopher Montagu, sonnes to the 
Eight honourable Edward Lord Montagu of 
Boughton. 1 

ATEE branches of a stock as faire 
Each a sonne and each an heire : 
Two Joseph-like from sire so sage, 

Sprung in autumne of his age ; 

But a Benjamin the other 

Gain'd with losing of his mother. 

This fruit of some spare hours I spent 

To your Honours I present. 

A king I for my subject have 

And noble patrons well may crave ; 

Things tripartite are fit for three, 

With youths, things youthful best agree ; 

Take them therefore in good part 

Of him that ever prayeth in heart 

That as in height ye waxe apace, 

Your souls may higher grow in grace. 

1 Full information concerning this historic family, 
and these ' youths ' in particular, will be found in ' Court 
and Society from Elizabeth to Anne. Edited from the 
Papers of Kimbolton by the Duke of Manchester,' 2 vols. 
8vo. 1864. Cf: I. 266 seqq 273 seqq, et alibi. One of the 
maps in ' Pisgah-Sight ' is dedicated to the Montagus. G. 



36 DEDICATION. 

Whilst your father (like the greene 
Eagle in his scutcheon seene : 
Which with bill his age doth cast) 
May longer still and longer last : 
To see your vertues o're increase 
Your yeares, ere he departs in peace. 
Thus I my booke to make an end 
To you : and you to God commend. 

Your Honours in all service 
Tho. Fuller. 





DAVID'S HAINOUS SIKNE. 

1. 

OW Zion's Psalmist grievously 
ofFended 
How Israel's Harper did most 
foulely slide, 
Yet how that Psalmist penitent, amended 
And how that Harper patient did abide 
Deserved chastisement (so fitly stil'd 
Which wrath inflicted not hut love most mild 
Not for to hurt but heale a wanton child.) 

2. 

How one by her owne brother was defiled 

And how that brother by a brother slaine ; 

And how a father by his sonne exiled : 

And by a subject, had a soveraigne : 
How peace procured after battels fierce 
As Sol at length doth sullen cloudes dispierce: 
My Muse intends the subject of her verse. 



Great God of might whose power most soveraigne 
Depends of none yet all of Thee depend, 



38 david's hainous sinne. 

Time cannot measure, neither place containe 
Nor wit of man Thy being comprehend : 
For whii'st I thing on Three, I am confin'd 
To One, and when I One conceive in minde 
I am recal'd to Three in One comhin'd 

4. 

Thy helpe I crave, Thy furtherance I aske 
My head, my heart, my hand direct and guide, 
That whii'st I vndertake this weighty taske 
I from Thy written lore start not aside : 

Alas ! 'tis nothing Lord with Thee to breake 
The strong : 'tis nothing to support the weake 
To make men dumbe, to make an infant 
speake, 

5. 

Each one begotten by immortall seed 
Becomes the pitcht feild of two deadly foes ; 
Spirit and flesh, these never are agreed 
With trucelesse warre each other doth oppose ; 
And though the spirit oft the flesh doth quell 
It may subdue but can it not expell 
So stoutly doth the Jebusite rebell. 

6. 

Now David when on Bathsheba loose eyes 
He fixt, his heavenly halfe did him disswade ; 



david's hainous sinne. 39 

Turne, turne away thy sight from vanities 
Exchange thy object, else thou wilt be made 
Vnmindfull of thy soule, her corps 1 to mincle 
Made for to lose the truth, such toyes to finde, 
By looking long, made at the last, starke 
blinde. 

7. 

What though her face and body be most faire, 
Behold, the sun her beauty doth surpass ; 
His golden beames surmount 2 her yellow hayre 
As far as purest cristall dyrtie glasse : 

Her skinne as is the skie not halfe so cleare 
Her curious veines for colour come not neare 
Those azure streaks that in the heavens 
appeare. 

8. 

There let thy hungry sight her famine feede. 
Whereon it cannot surfet with excesse : 
WhiTst tongue, heart, harp are tuned vp with 

speed, 
The grand-contrivers glory to expresse : 

Framing with words to rayse his mighty name 
That with a mighty word did rayse this frame, 
And by his providence preserves the same. 

1 The latin ' corpus ' body, not necessarily life-less. G. 

2 Surpass e.g. Shakespere 1 Henry VI. v. 3, and Love's 
Labour Lost v. 2. G. 



40 david's hainous sinne. 

9. 
But let no lustfull thoughts lodge in thy minde, 
Before that they be borne, they must be kill'd, 
Or else the man is cruell that is kinde 
To spare the foes wherewith his soule is spill'd : 
And if a wanton motion may request, 
Leave for to lodge a limbe th' incroaching 

guest 
Will soone command roome to receive the 
rest. 

10. 

Looke towards the mid-day sun, and thou shalt 
see 

A little tower 1 o're topps of hills to peepe ; 

That is the birth place of thy pedygree : 

Full oft there hast thou fed thy father's sheepe, 
And kept his ilockes vpon the Howry plaine : 
But now the sheepe-hook of a country swaine 
Is turn'd the scepter of a soveraigne. 

11. 

God made thee great, oh doe not Him disgrace 
And by His weighty statutes lightly set : 



1 The tower of Eder nigh Bethlehem 7 miles from Jeru- 
salem. F. 



david's hainous sinne. 41 

Hee honour' d thee, oh doe not Him debase; 

Hee thee remembred, doe not Him forget : 
Why should fat 1 Jeshurun so wanton grow 
As at his maister's head his heeles to throw'? 
Maister : that all his feeding did bestow. 

12. 

Behold high cedars in the valley set 
They in thy eyes like little shrubbs doe show, 
Whil'st little shrubbs vpon mount Oliuet 
Seeme lofty cedars : men whose states are low 
Their sinnes are not so obvious to sense : 
In princes, persons of great eminence 
A smaller fault doth seeme a great offence. 

13. 

But grant, no man thy wickednes espies 
Surely the Searcher of the reines doth marke 
Even infant lust] can figg-leaves bleare his 

eyes'? 
Or can thy shame bee shrowded in the darke ? 
Darknes shall then be turned into light 
Yea darknes is no darknes, in His sight 
But seeme the same to Him both day and 
night. 



1 Deut. xxxii. 15. F. 




_i z-:.l 



: 

Li: =: -_ -- 

_ _ _ - 



. L-ri 



david's haixous sixxe. -43 

17. 

Alwayes the same doth glut the appetite 

But pleased is our palate with exchange ; 

Variety of dishes doth delight : 

Then give thy loose affections leave to range. 
Forbidden things are best, and when we eate 
What we have slily gotten by deceit : 
Those morsels onely make the daynty meate. 

18. 

But oh reserve thy selfe. my maiden muse 
For a more modest subject, and forbeare 

To time such wanton toyes as may abuse 
And give distaste vnto a virgin's eare : 

Such rotten reasons first from hell did flow 
And thither, let the same in silence goe, 
Best knowne of them that did them never know. 

19. 

Thus hee that conquer' d men and beast most 

cruell 
(\Vhose greedy pawes with fellon goods were 

found) 
Answer'd Goliath's challenge in a duell 
And lay'd the giant groveling on the ground : 
He that of Philistines two hundred slue 
Xo whit appalled at their grisly hue 
Him one fravle woman's beauty did subdue. 



44 david's hainous sinne. 

20. 
Man is a shippe, affections the sayle 
The world the sea, onr sinnes the rocks and 

shelves, 
God is the pylot, if He please to fayle 
And leave the stearing of us to ourselves 
Against the rugged rocks wee run amaine 
Or else the winding shelves doe us detaine 
Till God the Palinure returns againe. 

21. 

Yet David bold to sinne, did fear the shame : 
He shunn'd the sheath that ran upon the knife : 
With a fine fetch 1 providing for his fame 
He fetcheth home Yriah to his wife : 

So under his chaste love to cloake his owne 
Vnlawful lust to fault most carelesse growne, 
Most carefull that his fault should not be 
knowne. 

22. 

But in their plots God doth befoole the wise 
By wayes that none can trace, all must admire : 
Short of his house that nigh Yriah lyes, 
And David so came short of his desire : 
The man a nearer lodging place did use 

1 Expedient. G. 



david's hainous sinne. 45 

(Which made the king on further plots to 

muse) 
And sent home, home to goe, did thus refuse. 

23. 

The pilgrime arke doth sojourne in a tent : 
In open fields Joab my lord doth lye, 
And all the souldiers of his regiment 
Have earth their beds, the heaven their canopy : 
Where bitter blasts of stormy winds are rife. 
Shall I goe feast, drink, dally with my wife 1 
Mot, as I live, and by your lordship's life. 

24. 

Then by his servants David did conspire 
Uriah's lust so dull, with wine to edge : 
(Venus doth freeze where Bacchus yeelds no fire) 
By their constraint, he condescends to pledge 
One common cup that was begun to all 
Captaines incamped nigh to Eabba wall ; 
One specially vnto the general! 

25. 

Abishay next is drunke to Joab's brother 
And this cupp to a second paves the way ; 
That orderly doth vsher in another : 
Thus wine once walking knowes not where to 
stay: 



46 david's hainous sinne. 

Yea such a course methodicall they take 
In ordering of cupps the same did make 
Yriah quite all order to forsake. 

26. 

His false supporters soone began to slipp 
And if his faltring tongue doth chance to light 
On some long word hee speedily doth clip 
The traine thereof : yea his deceitfull sight 
All obiects paired doth present to him : 
As double faces ; both obscure and dim 
Seeme in a lying looking-glasse to swim. 

27. 

My prayers for friends prosperity, and wealth 
Shall ne're be wanting, but if I refuse 
To hurt myself by drinking others health 
Oh let ingenious natures mee excuse : 
If men bad manners this esteeme, then I 
Desire to be esteem' d unmannerly 
That to live well will suffer wine to dye. 

28. 

Well did blind Homer see, for to expresse 
The vice that spawnes all other, when he faines 
Dame Circe an in chanting sorceresse 
Whose cupps made many men foregoe their 
braines 



David's hainous sinne. 47 

Whilst with the witlesse asse one purely 1 doats 

Others mishaped are, like lustfull goates, 

Or swil-ingrossing swine, with greedy throats. 

29. 

Though had yet hetter was Yriah left : 
ISTot quite a beast though scarse a man; disturb'd 
In minde, but not distracted nor bereft 
Of witt ; though drunk yet soberly hee curb'd 
His lust ; being wise though ignorant, to crosse 
The kings designes who now new thoughts 

doth tosse 
Finding his former project at a losse. 

30. 

The night with mourning-weeds the world becladd 
When restlesse David for to mend his matter 
Did make it worse : his naked sinne was bad 
More monstrous being maskt ; they oft doe scatter 
The chayne that of God's lawes vnloose a linke : 
Hee swam before in sinne nigh to the brinke 
But now he meanes in midst thereof to sinke. 

31. 

Then for a light hee speedily did call 
(Thou Darknes with his project bst agree'd !) 

1 Prettily. G. 



48 david's hainous sinne. 

For paper, pen and inke, to write withall 
Though sure a poinard might have don the deed 
Better if hee in blood had dipped it 
And on a sheet of paper what he writ 
A winding sheet far better did befit. 

32. 

This certs I know as sepian juice did sinke 
Into his spongy paper, sabling o're 
The same with various-formed specks of inke 
Which was so pure and lilly- white before : 
So spots of sinne the writers soule did staine 
Whose soylie tincture did therein remaine 
Till brinish tears had washt it out againe. 

33. 

^Next day when Day was scarce an infant growne 
Yriah (that no mischiefe did mistrust 
As none hee did decerve, but by his owne 
Did measure all men's dealings to bee just) 
Bearing this letter, on his journey past 
With speed, who needed not to make such hast 
Whose death had he gone slow did come too 
fast. 

34. 

Thus crafty maisters when they minde to beate 
A carelesse boy to gather birch they send him ; 



david's hainous sinne. 49 

The little lad doth make the rod compleat 
Thinking his maister therefore will commend 
him : 
But busily imploy'd, he little thought 
Hee made the net wherein himselfe was caught 
And must be beaten with the birch hee brought. 

35. 

His journey came well to the welcome end 
Safe to the 1 towne of waters hee attaines 
Towne which to force Joab his force did bend 
(Nought is so hard but vincible by paines) 

Some with their heads did plot, some with 

their hands 
Did practise yea as ready was the band 
To serve as was the captaine to command. 

36. 

So busie bees, some fly abroad at large 
Of flowry nectar for to fetch their fill : 
Some stay at home for to receive their charge 
And trustily the liquor doe distill : 

Or bottle it in waxe, whilst others strive 

Like sturdy martialls, far away to drive 

The drowsy droanes that harbour in the hive. 

1 Rabba. 2 Sam. xii. 27. F. 



50 david's hainous sinne. 

37. 

The strong-arm' d archer from his crooked bow 
Made a strait shaft with dismall newes to speed 
Into the towne, which ne're return'd to show 
The sender how his message did succeed : 
Yea heavie bodies mounted were on high, 
Dull stones to which dame Nature did deny 
Feete for to goe, Art made them wings to fly. 

38. 

Whilst in the towne one with his friend did talk 
A sudden stroake did take his tongue away • t 
Some had their leggs arrested as they walke 
By martiall law commanding them to stay : 
Here falls a massy beame, a mighty wall 
Comes tumbling there, and many men doth 

maule 
Who were both slaine and buried by the fall. 

39. 

Were there not vsed in the days of yore 
Enough men-murdering engines 1 but our age 
Witty in wickednes must make them more, 
By new found plotts mens malice to inrage : 
So that fire-spitting canons to the cost 
Of Christian blood all valour have ingrost, 
Whose rinding makes that many a life is 
lost. 



david's hainous sinne. 51 

40. 

Whilst thus the well-appointed army fought 
Winding in worm-like trenches neare the wall 
To humble the proud towers, Yriah brought 
The speaking paper to the generall 

Who when such language hee therein did 

hnde 
He thought himselfe or els the King vs blinde, 
Himself e in body or the King in minde. 

41. 

Then hee the letter did peruse againe 
The words, the words of David could not bee 
And yet the hand, for David's hand was plaine, 
Hee thought it was and thought it was not hee : 
Each little line he thorowly did view 
Till at the length more credulous he grew 
And what he thought was false he found too 
true. 

42. 

JSTow Joab thy valour be display'd 

Act not a midwife to a deed vnjust ; 

By feare or favour be not overs way' d 

To prove a pander to a prince's lust : 
Eeturne a humble answer back agane 
Let each word breath submission, to obtaine 
By prayers a conquest of thy soueraigne. 



52 david's hainous sinne. 

43. 
Shew how when God and countries good requires 
Thou substance, soule and body to ingage 
Is the ambition of thy best desires : 
Foes forraine to resist, to quell their rage 

How willingly would' st thou thy selfe despise, 
Count loosing of thy goods a gainfull prize 
Lavish thy blood and thy life sacrifice. 

44. 

But when God's love directly doth withstand 
And where his lawes the contrary convince 1 . 
Wee must not breake the heavenly king's command 
Whilst we do seeke to please an earthly prince : 
The burdens they impose on us to beare 
Our dutie is to suffer them : but where 
Kings bid and God forbids we must forbeare. 

45. 

Behold the man whose valour once surmounted 
In sacking Zion's mount (mount not so high 
As men therein were haughty !) and accounted 
Of worthies chiefe doth most unworthily : 
Hee that to summe the people of the land 
Withstood the King now with the King doth 

stand 
Too buxome 2 for to finish his command. 

1 Cf. Wright's invaluable ' Bible Word-Book ' s. v. G. 

2 Obedient. G. 



david's hainous sinne. 53 

46. 

Next morne when early Phoebus first arose 
(Which then arose last in Yriah's sight) 
Him Joab in the forfront did dispose 
From whom the rest recoyled in the fight : 
Thus of his friends betray' d by subtill traine 
Assaulted of his foes with might and maine 
He lost his life, not conquered but slaine. 

47. 

His mangled body they expose to scorne 
And now each cravin coward dare defie him, 
Outstaring his pale visage, which beforne x 
Were palsy-strook, with trembling to come nigh 
him : 
Thus heartlesse hares with purblind eyes do 

peere 
In the dead lyon's pawes, yea dastard deere 
Over his heartlesse corps dare domineere. 

1 Sometimes spelled ' bef oren '=bef ore : Thus Spencer 

The time was once and may again retorn 
For ought may happen that hath been beforn. 

[Shepherds K. 103.] G. 



DAYID'S HEAETIE REPENTANCE. 




1. 

HE tongue of guiltlesse blood is never 
ti'd 
In the earth's mouth, and though the 
greedy ground 
Her gaping crannies quickly did provide 
To drinke the liquor of Vriah's wound 
Yet it with moanes bescattered the skies 
And the revoicing eccho, with replies 
Did descant on the playn-song of the cries. 



2. 

Hereat the Lord perceiving how the field 
Hee sow'd with grace, and compast with an 

heape 
Of many measures, store of sinnes did yeild 
"Where he expected store of thankes to reape, 
With flames of anger, furnace-like he burn'd : 
Eor patience long despis'd and lewdly spurn'd 
Is at the length to raging fury turn'd, 



DAVID'S HEAKTIE REPENTANCE. 55 

3. 

Then all the creatures mustered their traine 
From angells vnto worms, the blinde did see 
Their Lord disgrac't, whose honour to maintaine 
Things wanting life most lively seeme to be ; 
Refusing all to serve man that refus'd 
To serve his God, all striving to be us'd 
To punish him, his Maker that abus'd. 

4. 

Please it your Highnes for to give me leave 
I'le scorch the wretch to cinders said the Fire : 
Send me said Aire, him II' e of breath bereave ; 
No quoth the earnest Water I desire 

His soylie sinnes with deluges to scoure ; 
Nay let my Lord quoth Earth imploy my 

power 
With yawning chapps I will him quick 
devour. 

5. 

Soone with a word the Lord appeas'd this strife 
Injoyning silence till He did vnfold 
That precious volume cald the Booke of Life 
Which He the Printer priuiledg'd of old 
Containing those He freely did imbrace : 
Nor ever would I wish an higher grace 
Than in this Booke to have the lowest place. 



56 david's heaktie repentance. 

6. 

Within this Booke hee sought for David's name 
Which having found He proffered to blot 
(And David surely well deserv'd the same 
That did his nature so with sinne bespot 

Though none are blotted out but such as never 
Were written in : nothing God's love can 

sever ; 
Once written there are written there for ever.) 

7. 

Strait from His throne the Prince of Peace arose 
And with embraces did His Father binde 
Imprisoning his amies, He did so close 
(As loving iyve on an oake did winde 
And with her curling flexures it betraile) 
His Father glad to finde His force to fayle 
Strugel'd as one not willing to prevaile. 



Thus then began the Spotlesse Lambe to speake 
(One word of Whom would rend the sturdy 

rocke, 
Make hammer-scorning adamant to breake, 
And vnto sense perswade the senseles stocke, 
Yea God Himselfe that knowes not to repent 
Is made by His petitions penitent 
His Justice made with Mercy to relent.) 



david's heartie repentance. 57 

9. 

Why doth my Father's fury burne so fierce ] 
Shall Persian lawes vnalterable standi 
And shall my Lord decree and then reverse, 
Enact and then repeale, and counter-mand % 
Tender Thy credit, gracious God, I crave 
And kill not him Thou didst conclude to save 
Can these hands blot what these hands did 
ingrave 1 

10. 

Hath not Thy wisdom from eternity 
Before the worlds foundation first was lay'd 
Decree' d, the due time once expir'd, that I 
Should flesh become and man borne of a maide 1 
To live in poverty and dye with paine 
That so Thy Sonne for sinners vilely slaine 
Might make vile sinners live Thy sonnes 
againe 1 

11. 

Let Me, oh let Me Thy feirce wrath asswage 
And for this sinner begg a full discharge : 
What though hee j ustly doth provoke Thy 

rage? 
Thy justice I will satisfie at large. 

If that the Lord of Life must murder' d bee 
Let mee intreat this murd'rer may goe free 
My meritts cast on him, his sinnes on Me. 



58 david's heartie repentance. 

12. 

Thus speaking from His fragrant cloaths there 

went 
A pleasant breath whose odour did excell 
Myrrhe, aloes and cassia for sent 
And all perfum'd His Father with the smell 
Whereat His smothed face most sweetly smil'd 
And hugging in His arms His dearest child 
Eeturn'd those welcome words, with voyce 
most milde. 

13. 

Who can so pleasing violence withstand % 
Thy craving is the hauing a request 
Such mild intreaties doe my heart command 
The 'mends is made and pacifi'd I rest : 

As far as earth from heaven doe distant lye 
As east is parted from the westerne skye 
So far his sinnes are sever'd from Mine eye. 

14. 

Hereat the heavenly quire lift vp their voyce 
Angells and saints imparadis'd combine 
Ypon their golden vialls to rejoyce 
To rayse the prayse of the celestiall Trine, 
All in their songs a sacred strife exprest 
W^hich could sing better and surpasse the rest 
All did surpasse themselves and sang the best. 



david's heaetie kepentance. 59 

15. 

Then said the Fire my fury I recant 
Life-hatching warmth I will for him provide : 
If David's breathlesse lungs do chance to pant 
Said Aire II' e fanne them with a windy tide : 
With moisture Il'e, said Water, quench his heat 
And I his hunger quoth the Earth, with meat 
Of marrow, fatnesse and the flower of wheat. 

16. 

Thus when a lord long buried in disgrace 
A king to former favour doth restore 
With all respect the court doth him embrace 
Fawning as fast as they did nowte before : 
Where smiles or frownes are but the bare 

reflexion 
Of the king's face, and like to this direction 
Where hee affects they settle their affection. 

17. 

Plaine-dealing jSTathan presently was sent 
Nathan, than whom was none more skill' d to 

lanch 
A festred soule, and with a searching tent 1 
To sound the sore : more cunning; none to stanch 



1 Eoll of lint used in searching or purifying a wound. 
Cf. my Glossary to Sibbes sv. G. 



60 david's heartie repentance. 

A bleeding-hearted sinner nor more kinde 
With swadling cloaths of comfort for to binde 
Vnjoynted members of a troubled minde. 

18. 

Hee did not flow with wealth which envye heeds 
!N"or yet was he with penury opprest : 
Want is the cause from which contempt proceeds : 
His meanes were in the meane, and that's the best. 
High hills are parent with heate or hid with 

snow 
And humble dales sone drown' d, that lie too 

low 
Whilst happy graine on hanging hills doth 
grow. 

19. 

For sundry duties he did dayes devide 
Making exchange of worke his recreation ; 
For prayer he set the precious morne aside, 
The mid-day he bequeath' d to meditation : 
Sweete sacred stories he reserv'd for night 
To reade of Moses' meeknes, Sampson's might : 
These were his joy, these onely his delight. 

20. 

But now dispensing with his dayly taske 
To Court he comes and wisely did invent 



david's heaktie repentance. 61 

Vnder a parable his mind to maske 

Seeming to meane nought lesse than what he 
meant, 
And lapwing-like round fluttering a-while 
With far-fetcht praeface and a witty wile, 
Hee made the king himself e for to beguile. 

21. 

Thus he that thought all mortall men to cheate 
And with, false shewes his secret sinnes to 

shade, 
Was couzned by the innocent deceite 
Of one plaine prophet, and directly made 
As he a judge sate on the bench, to stand 
At barr a prisoner, holding 1 up his hand 
But first condemned by his owne command. 2 

22. 

Goe fond 3 affectors of a flanting straine 

Whose sermons strike at sinnes with slenting 

blowes, 
Give me the man that's powerfull and plaine 
The monster Yice vnmasked to expose : 



1 * Thou art the man.' F. 

2 ' The man that hath done this thing shal dye/ F. 

3 Foolish. G. 



62 david's heartie repentance. 

Such preachers doe the soule and marrow part 
And cause the guilty conscience to smart 
Such please no itching eares but peirce the 
heart. 

23. 

This made King David's marble minde to melt 
And to the former temper to returne 
Thawing his frozen breast, whenas he felt 
The lively sparks of grace therein to burne 
Which vnder ashes cold were choakt before : 
And now hee weeps and wayles and sighs full 

sore 
Though sure such sorrow did his joy restore. 

24. 

So have I seene one slumber' d in a swound 

"Whose sullen soule into his heart did hye 

His pensive friends soone heave him from the 

ground 
And to his face life-water doe apply : 

At length a long-expected sigh doth strive 
To bring the wellcome newes, the man's alive 
Whose soule at last doth in each part arive. 

25. 

Then to his harpe he did himselfe betake 

(His tongue-tide harpe, long gowne out of request) 



david's heaetie repentance. 63 

And next to this his glory 1 must awake 
The member he of all accounted best : 

Then with those hands which he for griefe did 

wring 
Hee also lightly striks the warbling string 
And makes one voice serve both to sob and 



26. 

That heavenly voyce to heare, I more desire 
Than Syrens sweetest songs, than musicke made 
By Philomele chief e of the winged quire : 
Or him whose layes so pleasing, did perswade 
Stones for to lackey when he went before ; 2 
Or that brave harper whom unto the shore 
His hackny dolphin safety did restore. 3 

1 Tongue. G. 2 Orpheus. G. 3 Arion. G. 



DAVID'S HEAVIE PUNISHMENT. 

1. 

OST true it is when penitents by grace 
Acquitted are, the pardon of their 
sinnes 

And punishments release do both imbrace 
Like to a paire of vndivided twinns 

Parted they cannot be, they cleave so fast 
Yet when the tempest of God's wrath is past 
Still his afflicting hony-shower doth last. 




But let the Schooles these thorny points dispute 
Whose searching sight can naked truth discry, 
Skulking in errors arms, and are acute 
Fine-fingred with distinctions to untye 

Knots more than Gordian, these men never 

mist 
The slender marke, like 1 those in whose left fist 
There did so much dexterity consist. 



1 Judges xx. 16. F. 



david's heavie punishment. $5 

3. 

Meane time my Muse come see how prettily 
Trie patient infant doth, itself behave ; 
Infant but newly borne, now neare to dye, 1 
That from the cradle posted to the grave. 

See with what silent signes and sighes full faine 
Poore heart it would expresse where lies the 

paine 
Complaining that it knowes not to complaine. 

4. 

Stay cruell Death ! thy hand for pitty hold ! 

Against some aged grand-sire bend thy bow 

That now hath full twice forty winters told, 

Whose head is silver' d o're with ages snow : 

Dash out this babe, out of thy dismall bill 

And in exchange let him thy number fill 

So may he life, his friends enjoy him still. 

5. 

These hands to hurt another never sought 
Which cannot helpe themselves they are so 

weake ; 
His heart did never hatch a wanton thought, 
His tongue did never lye that cannot speake : 

1 The death of King David's child. F. 

E 



66 david's heavie punishment. 

By wrong and violence lie ne're did wrest 
The goods wherewith, his neighbour is possest 
When strength scarse servs to suck the nurse's 
brest. 

6. 

But ah ! this infant's guilt from him proceeds 
That knew the least when most he sought to 

know ; 
Who most was nak't when cloathed in his 

weeds 
Best cloathed then when naked he did goe : 
In vayne the wit of wisest men doth strive 
To cut off this intayle, that doth derive 1 
Death unto all when first they are alive. 



As when a tender rose begins to blow 
Yet scarse unswadled is, some wanton niaide, 
Pleas' d with the smell, allured vith the show 
Will not reprive it till it hath display' d 
The folded leaves : but to her brest applies 
Th' abortive budd, where coffined it lye's 
Losing the blushing dye before it dies. 



1 Communicate, transmit. G. 



david's heavie punishment. 67 

8. 
So this babe's life, newly begun, did end 
Which sure receiv'd the substance though not 

sign'd 
With grace's seale : God freely doth attend 
His ordinance, but will not be confin'd 

Thereto when 'tis not neglected nor despis'd 
They that want water are by fire baptiz'd 
Those sanctify' d that ne're were circumcis'd. 

9. 

Sweet babe one sabbath thou on earth didst see 
But endless sabbaths doest in heaven survive : 
Grant, Death of joyfull bowers deprived thee 
Thou hadst seene yeares of sorrowes if alive : 
True thou wast borne a prince but now art 

crown' d 
A king by death; sleepe therefore in the ground 
Sweetly untill the trumpet last shall sound. 

10. 

By this child's death king David did sustaine 
One losse : but where this misery did end 
More miseries began : as in a chayne 
One link doth on another linke depend : 

His lust with lust, his slaying with a slaughter 
Must punish' t be : proportion' d therafter 
To mother sinne is punishment the daughter. 



68 david's heavie punishment. 

II. 1 

Amnon advis'd by Jonadab, a fit 
Of sicknesse fames : men wickedly inclin'd 
Worse counsellors (that with, great store of wit 
Have dearth of grace) most easily may find : 
And Thamar's hands his meate must onely 

make : 
Ah ! happy age when ladies learn't to bake 
And when kings daughters knew to knead a 
cake. 

12. 

Eebecka was esteem' d of comely hew 
Yet not so nice her comelinesse to keepe 
Eut that shee water for the cam ni ells drew : 
Eachell was faire, yet fedd her father's sheepe 
But now for to supply Eebecka's place 
Or doe as Eachell did is counted base : 
Our dainty dames would take it in disgrace. 

13. 

But quickly did his beastly lust declare 
That he to eate her daynties had no neede : 
He for the cooke not for the cates 2 did care 
Shee was the dish on whom he meant to feed : 



1 The deflouring of Thamar. F. 2 Provisions. G. 



david's heavie punishment. 69 

Oh how she pray'd and strove with might and 

maine 
And then from striving fell to prayers againe : 
But prayers and striving both alike in vaine. 

14. 

Thus a poore larke imprison' d in the cage 
Of a kite claws most sweetly sings at large 
Her owne dirge whilst she seeks to calm his rage 
And from her jaylor sue's for a discharge : 
Who passing 1 for no musick that surpast 
To feede his eares whilst that his gutts doe fast 
On her that pray'd so long, doth prey at last. 

15. 

Then with dust-powder' d haire she sore bewayles 
And punisht on herselfe her brother's sinne : 
Parting her maiden livery with nayles 
That parted was with colours, and wherein 
White streaks their owner's innocence did show 
The bashful red her modesty : the row 
Of sable sorrowed for the wearer's woe. 

16. 

Comfort thyself e more virtuous than faire 
More faire than happy virgin, mourn with measure 

1 ' Having regard for.' G. 



70 david's heavie punishment. 

Sinnes unconsented to no soules impaire 
That must be done perchance with bodies plea- 
sure 
Which with the grief of soull maybe constraint : 
The casket broke the Jewell still remain' d 
Yntoucht which in the casket was contain' d 

17. 

In his brest 1 Absalom records this wrong : 
Out of our minds good turnes doe quickly passe 
But injuries therein remaine too long 
Those scrawl' d in dust but these ingrav'd in 
brasse : 
One sunset for our anger should suffice 
Which in his wrath set oft, oft did arise 
With yearly race surrounding twice the skies. 

18. 

Now when his fruitfull flocks which long had 

worne 
Their woolen coates for to make others hot 
Were now to forfeit them, and to be shorne 
(Sure from the silly sheepe his divelish plott 
Their owner never learn' d) hee finds a way 
To worke revenge, and called on that day 
His brothers to a feast which prov'd a fray. 

1 The murdering of Amnon. F. 



david's heavie punishment. 71 

19. 

What Amnon drunke in wine in blood lie spilt 
Which did the dainties marre and meate defile 
Cupps, carpetts, all with goary streaks were gilt 
Seeming to blush that cruely so vile 

So fowly savage should the banquet staine : 
Thus he that being well did sicknesse faine 
Not being sicke was on a suddenne slaine. 

20. 

The rest refused on the meate to feede 
Whose bellies were so full with griefe and feare 
To feele what they had seene : away they speed 
To ride : but Fame did fly, Fame that doth weare 
An hundred listning eares, an hundred eyes ; 
An hundred prating tongues, she dayly plies 
Tongues that both tell the truth and tattle lyes. 

21. 

She gets by going and doth gather strength 
As balls of snow by rolling more doe gaine 
She whisp'rd first but lowdly blaz'd at length 
All the kings sonnes, all the kings sonnes are 
slaine : 
The pensive Court in dolefull dumps did rue 
This dismall case till they the matter knew : 
Would all bad news like this might prove 
untrue. 



72 david's heavie punishment. 

22. 

Goe silly soules that doe so much, admire 
Court curious intertainment and fine fare 
May you for mee obtaine what you desire 
I for your fowles of Phasis 1 do not care 
If that such riots at your feasts he rife 
And all your meate so sowrely sauc'd with strife 
That guests to pay the shot must lose their life. 

23. 

Happy those swaines that in some shady bower 
Making the grasse their cloath, the ground their 

board 
Doe feede on mellow fruite or milk's fine flower 
Ysing no wine but what their wells afford: 
At these did malice never bend her bow 
Their state is shot free, it is set so low 
They overlooke that would them overthrow 

24. 

East unto Geshure flies the fratricide 

To shelter there himselfe • the sentence sore 

Of angry justice fearing to abide : 

Oh happy turne had he return' d no more 

1 That is 'pheasants: ' the bird having been introduced into 
Europe from Phasis on the coast of the Euxine : hence phasianss 
aves : Aristophanes, Acharn 726 : Pliny N.H. &c. &c. G. 



david's heavie punishment. 73 

Who wonted guise kept in a country strange : 
Those that abroad to forraine parts do range 
Their climate not conditions doe exchange. 

25. 

Returned: at entrance of the Court 1 he stands 
If any sutors there he chanc't to finde 
Hee steales their hearts by taking of their hands 
And sucked out their soule with kisses kinde : 
He of their name, cause, citty doth inquire : 
Proud men prove base to compasse their desire 
They lowest crouch that highest doe aspire. 

26. 

Before such kisses come vpon my face 
Oh let the deadly scorpion me sting 
Yea rather than such armes should me imbrace 
Let curling snakes about my body cling : 
Than such faire words I'de rather the fowle 
Ynt uned schreeching of the doiefull. owle 
Or heare the direfull mountaine-wolfe to howle. 

27. 

Some men affirme that Absalom doth sound 

In the worlds oldest tongue [' of peace a father '] 

1 Absalom's aspiring to the kingdom. P. 



74 david's heavie punishment. 

But certs I know that such mistake their ground : 
[' Kebellious sonne '] sure it importeth rather : 
And yet why so ? sith 1 since I call to minde 
Than the clementes none were more unkind 
Than innocent more nocent none I finde. 2 

28. 

Then borrowing the plausible disguise 
Of holinesse he mask't his plot so evill 
Ynder the good pretence of sacrifice 
(A saint dissembled is a double devill) 

But sure were those the vowes he went to pay 
His sire, that harmelesse sheepe he vow'd to slay 
Who o're mount Olivet weeping fled away 

29. 

This makes mee call my Saviour's griefe to minde 
Who on 3 this mount because the Jewes were 

growne 
So wicked : those that said they saw so blind — 
Mourn' d for their sins that mourn' d not for their 
own : 
Much did He weepe for others that forbad 
Others to weepe for Him, whose being sad 
Hath made his saints for ever since full glad. 

1 Cf. Wright, as before s. v. G. 

2 The Popes so (mis)-named. G. 3 Luke xix. 42. F. 



DAVID S HEAVIE PUNISHMENT. I 

30. 

Downe comes the king to Jordan : on the sand 
If that the saylors chance to ground the boat 
A flood of teares they straitwayes did command 
Whose large accession made the vessell floate : 
And if a blaste of winde did chance to faile 
So greivously the people did bewayle 
Their very sighs might serve to stuffe the sayle. 

31. 

Thus was the king on his own land exil'd 
His subjects were his hoast and he their guest 
Whose place was ill supplied by his child 
(Ynhappy bird defiling his owne nest) 

That tooke his fathers wives, in open sight: 
Those that do want of grace the sunshine 

bright 
Extinguish' t oft dim nature's candle light. 

32. 

The blushing sun no sooner did behold 
So beastly lust but sought his face to shrowd 
And shrinking in his beames of burnish't gold 
Was glad to skulke within a sullen cloud : 
The shamefac't birds with one wing faine 

to fly 
Did hold their other fanne before their eye 
For feare they should such nlthinesse espie. 



76 david's heavie punishment. 

33. 

What needed he to keepe alive his name 
Erect a pillar ? Sure this damned deed 
Makes us remember and detect the fame 
That in the world's last doating age succeed : 
Yea when that brasse that seemeth Time to 

scorne 
Shall be by all-devouring Time out-worne 
His name they'le beare in minde that are not 
borne. 

34. 

But 1 he that gave this counsell did not speed 
Who speeding home on witlesse asse amaine 
(Asse that for wit his rider did exceed) 
Cause he his will at Court could not obtaine 
Did make his will at home : the peevish elfe 
Amongst his houshold, parts his cursed pelfe 
Carefull of that but carelesse of himselfe. 

35 

Oh ! suddaine thought of thy mortality ! 
Thou art not yet so thorough worne with age, 
Nor in thy face such symptoms can espy 
Which should so neare approaching death pre- 
sage : 

1 Ahitkophel hanging himselfe. F. 



david's heavie punishment. 77 

Thy state is not distempered with, heate 
Thy working pulse doth moderately beate 
All outward things seeme whole, seeme all 
compleate. 

36. 

But ghostly is thy griefe : Thou that by treason 
Against thy leige so lately wast combin'd 
Thy passions now rebell against thy reason 
Eeason that is the soveraigne of thy minde 
And seeke for to disturbe it from the throne : 
Strive, strive to set these civill broyles at one 
Order thyselfe and let thy house alone. 

37. 

A chayne of hempe he to his necke made fast 
By tying of which knot hee did untye 
The knot of soule and body, and at last 
Stopping the passage of his breath, thereby 
A passage for his soule, wide opened hee : 
Thus tray tors rather than they should goe free 
Themselves the hangmen of themselves will bee. 

38. 

His friends to balm his body spare no cost 
With spices seeking to perfume a sinke 
For certs I know their labour was but lost : 
His rotten memory will ever stinke 



78 david's heavie punishment. 

His soule thereby was nothing bettered 
Because his corps were bravely buried : 
Tombs please the living profit not the dead. 

39. 

How many worthy martyrs vilely slaine 
Made meate for fowles or for the fire made fuell 
Though ground they could not for a grave obtaine 
Were not lesse happy but their foes more cruell : 
Vnburied bodies made not them unblest 
Their better halfe did find an heavenly rest 
And doth injoy joyes not to be exprest. 

40. 

Leave us the traytor thus vpon whose hearsse 
My Muse shall not a precious teare mispend 
Proceeding to bemoane in clolefull verse 
How 1 two great bands with cruell blowes con- 
tend : 
Whole clouds of arrowes made the sky to lowre 
Dissolv'd at length into a bloody showre 
Till Steele kill'd many, wood did more devoure. 

41. 

Oh let it not be publish' t in the path 
That leads unto th' incestuous seed of Lot 

1 The battell betwixt Absalom and David's men. F. 



david's heavie punishment. 79 

Tell not these tidings in the towne of Gath 

In Ascalon see ye proclaime it not 
Least these rejoyce at this calamity 
Who count yonr fame their greatest infamy 
Your wofull jarrs their welcome melody. 

42. 

Had Eachel now reviv'd her sonnes to see 

Their bloody hands would make her heart to 
bleed 

Each a Benoni unto her would be ; 

Had Leah liv'd to see herself e agree' d 

To fall out with herselfe, with teares, most sure 
She would have made her tender eyes past cure ; 
Who ever wonn she must the losse endure. 

43. 

The conquest (which her verdict long suspended) 
Hover' d aloft not knowing where to light \ 
But at the last the lesser side befreinded 
With best successe : the other put to flight 
More trusted a swift foote than a strong fist 
Most voices oft of verity have mist 
Nor in most men doth victory consist. 

44. 

The gracelesse sonne was plung'd in deepe dis~ 
tresse 



80 david's heavie punishment. 

For earth, his weight no longer would endure 
The angry heavens denied all accesse 
Vnto a wretch so wicked, so impure 

At last the heavens and earth with one con- 
sent 
A middle place vnto the monster lent 
Above the earth, beneath the firmament. 

45. 

His skittish mule ran roving in the fields 

And up high hills, downe dales, o're woods did 

prance 
Seeming with, neighing noyse and wanton heeles 
In token of great joy to sing and dance, 

That now her maister she should beare no 

more 
(An heavy bulke whose sinnes did weigh so 

sore) 
Now rid of him that rid on her before. 

46. 

Cry, Absalom, cry, Absalom, amaine, 
And let thy winged prayers pierce the skye ! 
Oh to the spring of pitty soone complaine 
That ne're is dammed up nor drained dry ; 
Thy fault confesse, His favour eke implore 
Much is thy misery, His mercy more 
Thy want is great but greater is His store. 



david's heavie punishment. 81 

47. 
Condemne thyselfe and He shall thee acquitt 
Doe then but pray He'll pitty thy estate, 
Confesse thy debt He will the same remit 
It never was too soone, it's ne're too late : 
Alas : long sinners scarse at last relent 
Hee gives not all offenders to repent 
That granteth pardon to all penitent. 

48. 

Whilst thus his life suspended was on high 
Bold-ventrous Joab opened his heart 
(Heart where much treason lurked privily) 
And peir'ct his body with a triple dart : 
Then crimson blades of grasse whereon he 

bleeds 
Did straitwayes dye, and in their room succeeds 
A fruitfull wildernesse of fruitlesse weeds. 

49. 

When David heard the victory was gain'd 
But his sonne lost (as Jordan waxing ranke 
O're Howes the land and scornes to be restrain' d 
To have his ti'de in a narrow banke) 
Surges of sorrow in his heart did rise 
And brake the watry sluces of his eyes 
. Who lightned thus himselfe with heavy cryes : 

F 



82 david's heavie punishment. 

50. 

My sonne, whose body had of grace 1 the fill ! 
My sonne, whose soule was so devoid of grace ! 2 
Without my knowledge and against my will 
My sonne, in cause so bad, so strange a place : 
My sonne, my sonne for which I must com- 

plaine 
I feare in soule as in the body slaine 
Would I might dye that thou might'st live 
againe. 

51. 

Now when this griefe was swallow' d not digested 
The subjects flock' t king David to restore 
Who in an instant love what they detested 
Detest in th' instant what they lov'd before : 
People like weather-cocks wav'd with the wind 
We constant in inconstancy may finde 
As time counts minutes so they change their 
minde. 

52. 

Amongst the rest that came the king to meete 
Lame-leg'd Mephibosheth, but loyall-hearted 
Was one that never washt his cloaths or feete 
(Except with teares) since David first departed ; 

1 ' Beauty.' G. 2 That is ' goodness,' holiness. G. 



david's heavie punishment. 83 

Feete which, by fall from nurse's armes began 
To bait, with him a child so fast she ran 
That he could never goe when growne a man. 

53. 

Not much unlike — if it give no distaste 
That reall truths I doe with trifles match — 
Whilst that my posting Muse, with headlong 

haste 
Doth strive her rurall layes for to dispatch 
Halting invention, for the want of heede 
And lame unjoynted lines from her proceede : 
And seldome things done speedily doe speed. 

54. 

But here an vnexpected jarre arose 
Whilst people for most part in [th'] prince con- 
tended j 
Which grew from bitter words to bloody 

blowes : 
The king quoth Judah of our tribe descended 
Hee of our flesh is flesh, bone of our bone : 
Nay answer'd Israel in the king wee owne 
Ten parts, a single share is yours alone. 

55. 

Whilst sparks of discord thus began to smoake 
To finde the bellowes Sheba did conspire 



84 david's heavie punishment. 

(Sheba 1 that proudly did disdaine the yoke) 
And blowing of a trumpet, blew the fire : 

Then those that claimed ten disdain' d all 

part 
In David, taught by his seducing art 
They discontented to their tents depart. 

56. 

This rebell Joab whilst to quell he strives, 
A nameles woman (in the booke of life 
Her name is kept that kept so many lives) 
Procur'd that he who stirred up the strife 
The body of the common-wealth to rend 
From prince the head whereon it did depend 
With head from body rent his life did end. 

57. 

By his death many citizens surviv'd ; 

The losse of traytors bloud did prove their gaine ; 

Soone cea'st the flood of discord, thence deriv'd 

When they the factions fountaine did restraine. 
This warre a vile man with 2 a word did 

rayse 
Ynto his shame, which to her endlesse prayse 
A worthy woman with a word 3 allaies. 

1 ' The sonne of Belial.' F. 

2 ' What faith have we in David.' F. 

3 ' His head shall be thrown,' etc. F. 



david's heavie punishment. 85 

58. 
So in our Land a noble queene arose, 
As we have heard our fathers oft relate ; 
A maide yet manly to confound her foes, 
A maide and yet a mother to the State : 

Which she weake, like to crumbling bricke did 

finde, 
Which strong as lasting marble she resign' d 
Gold and God's worship both by her refin'd. 

59. 

She having flourished in great renowne 
In spite of power and policy of Spaine, 
Did change her earthly for an heavenly crowne 
And cea'st to rule o're men, with God to 
raigne ; 
Fourty and foure Novembers fully past 
(Aie me that winged Time should post so 

fast) 
To Christ, her love, she wedded was at last. 1 

60. 

This sunne thus set there followed no night 
In our horizon ; strait another sunne 
Most happily continued the light 
Which by the first was hopefully begunne : 

1 Elizabeth. G. 



86 david's heavie punishment. 

And what might most amaze all mortall eyes 
Never before out of the Northern skies 
Did men "behold bright Phoebus to arise. 

61. 

Arts did increase his fame, he did increase 
The fame of arts ; and counting twice eleven 
Twelve months upon his throne, this prince oi 

peace 
By falling to the earth did rise to heaven : 

Then downe our cheeks teares hot and cold did 

flow 
Those for the sire deceast exprest our woe, 
Those joy for his succeeding sonne did 
show. 1 

62. 

Live gracious leige whose vertues doe surmount 
All flattery, and envy them admires ; 
Center of grace and greatnesse, live to count 
Till that thy kingdom with the world expires : 
Wee subjects wish thee worst that love thee 

best 
Who here long to injoy thee, doe request 
That late thou mayst injoy an heavenly 
rest. 2 

1 James I. G. 2 Charles I. G. 



david's heavie punishment. 87 

63. 

And thou young prince, hope of the future age 
Succeed to fathers vertues, name and crowne ; 
A new starre did thy Saviour's birth praesage 
His death the sun eclipsed did renowne : 
But both of these conjoyned to adorne 
Thy wellcome birth, the sun with age so 

worne 
Did seeme halfe dead and a young starr was 
borne 1 

64. 

But what dost thou my vent'rous Muse prassume 
So far above thy dwarf-like strength to strained 
Such soaring soone will melt thy waxen plume ; 
Let those heroike sparks whose learned braine 
Doth merit chapletts of victorious bayes 
Make kings the subject of their lofty layes 
Thy worthlesse praysing doth their worth dis- 
praise. 

65. 

Strike saile, and to thy matter draw more neare 
And draw thy matter nearer to an end : 
Though nought prayse-worthy in thy verse 

appeare 
Yet strive that shortnesse may the same commend : 

1 Charles II. G. 



Ob DAVID S HEAVIE PUNISHMENT. 

Keturne to see where Joab homeward goes 
To see Ms friends that had subdu'd his foes ; 
His souldiers and himself there to repose. 

66. 

Thus when two adverse winds with strong com- 
mand 
Summon the sea, the waves that both do feele, 
Dare follow neither but in doubt do stand, 
Whilst that the shipps, with water drunke, doe 
reele 
Withmen, for grief of drowning drown'd in grief e 
Yntill at length a calme brings them reliefe 
And stills the storme that had so long been 
briefe. 

67. 

Oh ! that I might but live tho see the day 
(Day that I more desire then hope to see) 
When all these bloody discords done away 
Our princes in like manner might agree. 

When all the world might smile in perfect peace 
And these long-lasting broyls at length might 

cease 
Broyles which alas doe dayly more increase. 

68. 
The Netherlands with endlesse warrs are tost 



david's heavie punishment. 89 

Like in successe to their unconstant tide 
Losing their gettings, gaining what they lost. 
Denmarke both sword and Baltick seas divide : 
More blood than juice of grape nigh Ehine is 

shed 
And Brunswicke land will not be comforted 
But cryes my duke alas ! my duke is dead. 

69. 

The warrs in France now layd aside not ended 
Are onely skimmed over with a scarre 
Yea haughty Alps that to the clouds ascended 
Are over-climbed with a bloody warre : 
And Maroes birth-place Mantua is more 
Made famous nor for Mars and battel sore 
Than for his muse it famed was before. 

70. 

Sweden to stopp th' infernall flood provides 
(May his good cause be crown' d with like successe ; 
And they that now please none, to please both 

sides 
May they themselves his trusty friends expresse) 
But Turks the cobweb of their truce each howre 
Doe breake ; they wayte a time but want no 

powre 
Nor will, warr-wearied Christians to devore. 



90 



DAVID S HEAVIE PUNISHMENT. 



71. 

But let the cunning Chymicke whose exact 
Skill caused light from darknesse to proceed ; 
Out of disorder order can extract 
Make in his due time all these jars agree'd, 
Whose greivances may be bemoan' d by men, 
By God alone redressed : and till then 
They more befitt my prayers than my pen. 

TQ MONG AOSA 0EI2. 



FINIS. 





II. PANEGYRICK ON HIS MAJESTIES 
HAPPY RETURN. 1 

1. 

J T Wor'ster great God's goodness to 
our Nation 
It was a conquest, your bare pre- 
servation. 
When 'midst your tierces foes on every side 
For your escape God did a lane provide ; 
They saw you gone, but whither could not tell 
Star-staring, though they ask'd both heaven and 
hell. 2 




1 A Panegyrick to His Majesty on his Happy Eeturn. 
By Tho. Fuller B.D. London, Printed for John Playford 
at his shop in the Temple. 1660 [4°.] An earlier and very 
much shorter version of the c Panegyrick ' appeared in the 
1 Worthies ' under Worcestershire with these truly Fullerian 
words ' And here my Muse craves her own Nunc dimittis, 
never to make verses more : and because she cannot write 
on a better, will not write on another occasion, but heartily 
pray in prose for the happiness of her lord and master. 
And now having taken our Vale of verses ' . . . G. 

2 ' Lane ' (line 4th) is printed in large capitals LANE — 
Why? 'His sacred Majesty escaped, by royal oaks (and 



lv Wa 



92 PANEGYMCK ON 

2. 

Of forreign States you since have studied store 
And read whole libraries of princes o're. 
To you all forts, towns, towers and ships are 

known 
(But none like those which now become your 

own) 
And though your eyes were with all objects fill'd 
Onely the good into your heart distill' d. 

3. 

Garbling men's manners, you did well divide, 
To take the Spaniard's wisdom not their pride : 
With French activity you stor'd your mind 
Leaving to them their ficklenesse behind ; 
And soon did learn, your temperance was such 
A sober industry even from the Duch. 1 

4. 

But tell us, gracious sovereign, from whence 
Took you the pattern of your patience % 



other miraculous appliances well known to mankind : but 
Fourteen-thousand other men, sacred too after a sort though 
not majesties, did not escape. One could weep at such a death 
for brave men in such a Cause.' Carlyle's Cromwell : Battle 
of Worcester: [Vol. iii. p. 200 : edn 4 vols. 8vo 1850.] G. 

1 Well that winsome Fuller lived not to see his ideal 
befouled and befouling. G. 



his majesty's happy return. 93 

Learn't in affliction's School under the rod 
Which was both us'd and sanctifi'd by God ; 
From Him alone that lesson did proceed, 
Best tutor with best pupil best agreed. 



We your dull subjects must confess our crime 
Who learnt so little in so long a time, 
And the same School : thus dunces' poring looks 
Mend not themselves but only marre their books. 
How vast the difference 'twixt wise and fool ! 
The Master makes the schollar, not the school. 

6. 

With rich conditions Eome did you invite 
Hoping to purchase you their proselyte 
(An empty soul's soon tempted with full coffers) 
Whilst you with sacred scorn refus'd their proffers : 
And for the Faith did earnestly contend 1 
Abroad which now you do at home defend. 

7. 

Amidst all storms, calm to yourself the while, 
Saddest afflictions you did teach to smile. 



1 Jude 3 ' Contend for the faith which was once delivered 
unto the saints.' F 



94 PANEGYRICK ON 

Some faces best become a mourning dress 
And such your patience, which did grace distress, 
Whose soul, despising want of worldly pelf 
At lowest ebbe went not beneath itself. 

8. 

God's justice now no longer could dispence 

With the abusing of his Providence ; 

To hear successe his approbation styl'd 

And see the bastard brought against the child. 

Scripture by such who in their own excuse 

Their actings 'gainst God's writings did produce. 

9. 

The Independent doth the Papist shun 
Contrary ways their violence doth run : 
And yet in such a round at last they met 
That both their saints for mediators set i 1 
We were not ripe for mercy, God he knows 
But ready for his justice were our foes. 

10. 

The pillar which God's people did attend 
To them in night a constant light did lend, 

i Witness a sermon. F. [Query — Dr Thomas Goodwin 
and Peter Sterry ? The famous ' prayer ' of the former so 
perverted in one expression therein, doubtless simply used 
Jeremiah's sorrowful plaint : Jeremiah xx. 7. G. 



his majesty's happy return. 95 

Though dark unto th' Egyptians behind ; 
Such was brave Monck : l in his reserved mind 
A riddle to his foes he did appear 
But to himself and you, sense plain and clear. 

11. 

By means unlikely God atchieves his end 
And crooked wayes straight to his honour tend ; 
The great and ancient gates of London town 
(No gates no city) now are voted down 
And down were cast, happy day ! for all 
Do date our hopeful rising from their fall. 

12. 

The matter of your Kestitution's good 
The manner better, without drop of blood : 
By a dry conquest, without forreign hand 
Self-hurt and now self-healed is our Land. 
This silent turn did make no noise, strange ! 
Few saw the changing — all behold the change. 

13. 

So Solomon most wisely did contrive 
His temple should be still-born though alive. 
That stately structure started from the ground 
Unto the roof, not guilty of the sound 

i See Oarlyle, as above, sub nomine. G. 



96 PANEGYRICK ON 

Of iron tool, all noise therein debarr'd : 
This virgin-Temple thus was seen not heard. 

14. 

When two Protectors were of late proclaim'd 
Courting men's tongues, both miss't at what they 

aim'd : 
True English hearts did with just anger burn 
And would no echo of i God save ' return : 
Though smiling silence doth consent imply 
A tongue-tied sorrow flatly doth deny. 1 

15. 

But at your majestie's first proclamation 
How loud a stentor did invoice our nation ! 
A mouth without a tongue was sooner found 
In all that crowd than tongue without a sound : 
Nor was't a wonder men did silence break 
When conduits did both French and Spanish 
speak. 2 



i The ' two Protectors ' alluded to were Oliver Crom- 
well and Bichard Cromwell. It need scarcely be said that 
it is a Boyalist delusion that in either case but specially in ' 
that of Oliver the national ' welcome ' was less real or less 
warm than that to Charles II. G. 

2 The ' Wines' of Spain and France 'ran 7 from the 
' fountains ' of the citv. Gr. 



his majesty's happy return. 97 

16. 
The bells aloud did ring for joy : they felt 
Hereafter sacriledge shall not them melt. 
The bonfires round about the streets did blaze 
And these new lights fanatiques did amaze : 
Thebrandisht swords this bo on begg'd before death 
Once to be shew'd then buried in the sheath. 

17. 

The Spaniard looking with a serious eye 

Was forc'd to trespass on his gravity 

Close to conceal his wond'ring he desir'd 

But all in vain who openly aclmir'd. 

The French who thought the English mad in mind 

Now fear too soon they may them sober find. 

18. 

The Germans seeing this your sudden power 
Freely confess another emperour. 
The joyful Dane to heav'ns cast up his eyes 
Presuming suffering kings will sympathize. 
The Hollanders — first in a sad suspence — 
Hop'd that good mercy was their innocence. 

19. 

As aged Jacob with good news intranc'd 
That Joseph was both living and advanc'd : 



98 PANEGYRICK ON 

The great surprize so deeply did prevail 
On the good patriarch that his heart did fail : 
Too little for to lodge so large a joy — 
For sudden happiness may much annoy. 

20. 

But when he saw — with serious intent 

To fetch him home — the waggons his son sent 

That cordial soon his fainting heart did cure 

'Twas past suspicion, all things then were sure : 

The father his old spirits did renew 

And found his fears were false, his joyes were true. 

21. 

Such our condition : At the first express 

We could not credit our own happiness ; 

Told of the coming of your majesty 

Our fainting hearts did give their tongues the lye 

A boon too big for us — so ill we live — 

For to receive though not for God to give. 

22. 

But when we saw the royal Fleet at Dover 
Voted to wait and waft your highness over 
And valient Montague — all vertue's friend 1 — 
Appointed on your person to attend : 

1 See note to dedication of 'David's Iiainous^ Sinne,' 
p. 35. G. 



his majesty's happy return. 99 

Joy from that moment did expell our grief 
Converted into slow but sure belief. 

23. 

Th' impatient land did for your presence long : 
England in swarms did into Holland throng 
To bring your highness home, by th' Parliament 
Lords, Commons, Citizens, Divines were sent : 
Such honour subjects never had before 
And hope that never any shall have more. 

24. 

With all degrees your carriage accords 

Most lord-like your reception of the lords : 

Your answer with the Commons so comply' d 

They were to admiration satisfi'd ; 

Civil the citizens you entertain' d — 

As if, in London born, y'ad there remain' d. 

25. 

But oh ! your short, but thick expressive lines 
Which did both please and profit the Divines : 
Those pastors when returned to their charge 
For their next sermon had your words at large 
With some notes for your practice, who can 

teach 
Our miters by your living what to preach. 
L.ofC 



100 PANEGYEICK ON 

26. 
The States of Holland (or Low Countries now) 
Unto your sacred majesty did bow : 
What air, what earth, what water could afford 
Best in the kind, was crowded on their board : 
And yet when all was done, the royal guest 
And not the chear ; he, he did make the feast. 

27. 

Th' officious wind to serve you did not fail 
But scour'd from west to east to fill your sail 
And fearing that his breath might be too rough 
Prov'd over-civil and was scarce enough ; 
Almost you were becalm' d amidst the main 
Prognostick of your perfect, peaceful reign. 

28. 

Your narrow seas forreigners do wrong 
To claim them — surely doth the ditch belong 
JSTot to the common continent but isle 
Inclosed — did on you their owner smile : 
Not the least loss, onely the Naseby mar'ls 
To see herself now drowned in the Charles. 

29. 

You land at Dover, shoals of people come 
And Kent alone now seems all Christendom. 



his majesty's happy return. 101 

The Cornish rebels, eight score summers since 
At Black-heath fought against their lawful prince 
Henry the Seventh, which place with treason 

stain' d, 
Its credit now, by loyalty regain'd. 

30. 

Great London the last station you did make 
You took not it but London you did take : 
"Where some who sav'd themselves amongst the 

croud 
Did lose their hearing, shoutings were so loud. 
Now at "Whitehall the guard which you attends 
Keeps out your foes : God keep you from your 

friends. 

31. 

Thus far fair weather on your work attended 
Let showres begin now where the sunshine ended. 
Next day we smil'd at th' weeping of the skies 
With all concerns how Providence complies ! 
The city serv'd, next followeth the village 
And trading quickned, God provides for tillage. 

32. 

One face, one forme in all the Land appears 
All, former foot now hors'd to cavaliers. 
As for your enemies their cursed crew 



102 PANEGYEICK ON 

Are now more hard to find out than subdue. 
'Tis very death to them they cannot dye 
Who do know whence not whither for to flie. 

33. 

France flouts, Spain scorns and Italy denies 

them 
Any access : the Dane with Dutch defies them ; 
Unto New England they were known of old 
And now no footing for them on that mold. 
Eich Amsterdam — the staple of all sects 
These bankrupt rebels with contempt rejects. * 

34. 

Thus cruell Cain who pious blood first, spilt 

Was pursevanted 1 after by his guilt, 

With murderer imbranded on his face 

Kept his condition though he chang'd his place : 

Wand'ring from land to land, from shore to 

shelf 
His guilty soul nere wandered from itself. 

35. 

Let them themselves in unknown lands disperse 
Or if they please with canibals converse, 
Like unto like, that all the world may see 

1 Followed as by ' pursuivant.' G. 



his majesty's happy return. 103 

King-killers and men- eaters do agree : 

In no land they'l increase, 'tis nature's love 

Unto mankind : all monsters barren prove. 

36. 

Long live our gracious Charles second to none 
In honour, who ere sate upon the throne : 
Be you above your ancestors renown' d, 
Whose goodness wisely cloth your greatness 

bound; 
And knowing that you may be what you 

would 
Are pleased to be onely what you should. 

37. 

Europ's great arbitrator, in your choice 
Is plac'd of Christendom the casting voice ; 
Hold you the scales in your judicious hand 
And when the equal beam shall doubtful 

stand, 
As you are pleased to dispose one grain, 
So falls or riseth either France or Spain. 

38. 

As Sheba's queen defective fame accus'd 
Whose nigardly relations had abus'd 
Th' abundant worth of Solomon, and told 
Not half of what she after did behold : 



104 PANEGTRICK ON 

The same your case, fame hath, not done you 

right 
Our ears are far out-acted by our sight. 

39. 

Your self's the ship return'd from forreign 

trading 
England's your port, experience the lading, 
God is the pilot \ and now richly fraught 
Unto the port the ship is safely brought : 
What's dear to you is to your subjects cheap 
You sav'd with pain, what we with pleasure reap.' 

40. 

The most renowned Edward the Confessor 
Was both your parallel and predecessor, 
Exil'd he many years did live in France 
— Erom low foundations highest roofs advance: — 
The yoak in youth with patience he bore 
But in his age the crown with honour wore. 

41. 

The common law, to him, the English owe 
On whom a better gift you will bestow : 
That which he made by you shall be made good 
That prince and people's rights both understood 
Both may be bankt in their respective station ; 
Which dare no fear of future inundation. 



HIS MAJESTY S HAPPY KETURN. 



105 



42. 

Oppression, the king's evil, long indur'd 
By others cans' d, by yon alone thns cnr'd : 
God onely have the glory, yon the praise 
And we the profit hy onr peaceful dayes, 
All forreigners the pattern for their State 
To anoy rather than to imitate. 



FINIS. 




III. ' Verses ' prefixed to the Scintilla Altaris of 
Edward Sparke D.D. 1 

(a) ON THE WORTHY WORK OF MY 
RESPECTED FRIEND ED. SPARKE D.D. 




HEN pious Asa with his fathers slept 
How solemnly his funerals they 
kept! 
A curious bed's contriv'd hy art's devices 

1 The following is the full title-page of the book in the 
edition of 1678 : — § 

tm" OYSIASTH'PION vel Scintilla Altaris. Primitive 
Devotion in the Feasts and Fasts of the Church of Eng- 
land. By Edward Sparke D.D., Chaplain in Ordinary to His 
Majesty. The sixth edition, Eevised by .the Author. With 
Additions upon the Three Grand Solemnities last annexed to 
the Liturgy: consisting of prose, poems, prayers and sculp- 
tures. London, Printed by T. Hodgkin for T. Basset and H. 
Brome at the George near St Dunstans in Feet-street and 
at the Gun at the West-end of St Pauls, 1678,' cr. 8vo. 

Fuller's step-mother was daughter to Eob. Sparke: 'Coll. 
Eegal. 1557. Eob. Sparke electus scholaris, postea Theol. 
Bac. Eector de Burbage in comitatu Ley-cestr novercae 
mese (quse tamen amore verissima mater fuit) charissimus 
pater' Fuller's MS. in Jesus College, cited by Baker, M.S. 
vi. 275. G. 



spaeke's scintilla altakis. 107 

Fill'd all with Indian gums, Arabian spices. 
This bed the case, wherein his corps, the jewel 
Is 1 for the burning 2 made the precious fuel 
As if that Asa's body did aspire 
To meet his soul and mount up in that fire- 
Dead saints dead days now put into their urn : 
See here a sweeter, brighter flame doth burn 
Kindled from Holy sparks when 3 doth arise 
No smoak to hurt, save only envious eyes : 
Whilst my admiring Muse at distance stands 
Desiring at his flame to warm her hands \ 
Wherewith emboldened nearer she presumes 
To steal a s[c]ent of these thy sweet perfumes. 
But I recant my words and pardon crave 
That I compar'd thy book unto the grave 
Or urn of saints : for by thy pen's perfection 
Saints are not buried but have resurrection. 
The cozening witch in counterfeit disguise 
Made but a seeming Samuel to rise ; 
(Whom cunningly she did with mantle hide 
To cloak her cheat, which else might be espide :) 
But who will not thy worthy Work applaud % 
No falshood here, no forgery or fraud ; 
Thou really dost from the dust retrive 
And make not one but all saints to revive. 



1 Misprinted 'are.' G. 2 2 Chronicles xvi. 14. F 
3 Query ' whence ' ? G. 




108 VERSES PREFIXED TO 

Yea by the pains which thou on them expends 

Easter doth rise, Ascension-day ascends ) 

Thy poetry is pleasant, pictures fine 

Thy prose profound, but oh the prayers divine ! 

Thus hast thou pleased us in every part 

Our fancies, judgments, with our eyes and heart. 

03) ON MY WORTHY FRIEND 
DR SPARKE, HIS LEARNED BOOK. 



BROOD of legendary saints of old 
Were 1 hatched in heads both bald 
and bold : 

Some saints in nature ne'r had face or features 
But only were their wild inventors creatures ; 
As mountain- like St Christopher thy glory 
No mole-hill yet of truth in all the story. 
Sure hard his face who told such lies so oft ! 
But who believes them sure his head is soft : 
Fiction of saints ne'er coyn'd so great a store 
But faction in our age hath minted more : 
Commend themselves, and there is half their 

trade; 
Condemn all others, then the saint is made. 

But here my friend presents a noble breed 
Of ancient saints, such as were saints indeed : 

1 Misprinted 'where.' G. 



sparke's scintilla altaris. 109 

And yet these saints in these our iron times 
When piety and learning both were crimes 
Haye had their Feasts and Fasts put down out- 
right 
And all their days extinct in envious night : 
Only the faithful fairs 1 did them retain : 
Exil'd the Church i' th' town they do remain. 
But how much doth this thy labour merit 
In these dead days thou put'st a quick'ning 

spirit : 
For us thou writ'st, for us thou tak'st this toy'l, 
To make us see this sparke 2 doth spend his 

oyl, 



i = ' fair ' ladies. G-. 

2 With reference to Fuller's characteristic and inevitable 
playing on the name of ' Sparke ' it may be allowed me to 
record here an amusing coincidence that chanced in Scotland 
and the authenticity of which is beyond doubt — A clergy- 
man (in Scotland) was called upon to administer the 
ordinance of baptism to the child of a brother-clergyman 
whose name was ' Sparke,' who had already a very large 
family, with very short intervals between each. — After the 
rite it is usual in Scotland— among Presbyterians — to sing 
one of the versified Psalms or Paraphrases — and on the 
occasion in question the officiating clergyman selected with 
unconscious patness and to the excitement of the risibilities 
of his audience and the consternation of his clerical friend, 
the 5th Paraphrase, reading out ore rotundo, the second 
verse — 

' As sparks in close succession rise, etc. Q. 



110 AD SERISSIMUM REGEM. 

Live learned pen, converse with men below 
Some forty winters until ages' snow 
Candy thy reverend locks, and make them look 
White as thy soul and paper of thy book. 
But when that bankrupt nature shall deny 
To pay more moisture and when thou must dye. 
Mount gallant soul with saints in bliss survive 
Whose rites thy pen did in sad times retrive. 



IV. From i Genethliacum illustrissimorum Prim 
cipum Caroli et Mariae a Musis Cantabrigiensi- 
bus celebratum. 1631. [4°]. 

AD SEEENISSIMUM BEGEM. 

Eilia nata tibi sub quarta luce Novembris, 
Quintaque famosa est proditione dies. 

Septima post decimam sceptris sacratur Elisse, 
Nona ortu Eex est inclyte clara tuo. 

A Jano incipiet noster non amplius annus ; 

Tu manda, & primus jure November erit. 

Tho. Fuller, Coll. Sid. Suff. 1 



i In this volume there are ' Verses ' by Milton's ' Edm. 
King: Coll. Christi, Socms' (p. 39)— Barnabas Oley (pp., 
57-62) -Jo. Eandall (page 87). G. 



AD REGEM. Ill 

V. From <Kex Kedux' (Cantab 1633), p. 55. 

SCOTLE & ANGLLE MUTUA 
DISCEPTATIO. 

Nunquid ut exires venisti, Carole f i nunquid 

— Scotia. 
Major natali non mora danda solo % 
Nunquid in sternum discedis Carole 1 nunquid 

— Angl. 
Immemor Arctoo Phoebus in orbe manet ] 
Parens adeo, mensioqne dies vix ima videtur, 

— Scot. 
Visa dies lsetoe vix brevis hora mihi. 
Longns abes, brevis bora dies, lux singula mensis, 

— Angl. 
Hie visus miserse secula multa mibi. 

KEGINA AD EEGEM. 

iEqua fero viduis tbalamis quod sola jacebam : 

Causa fuit vestrse digna corona morse. 
Quot menses absis, nova tot diademata sume : 
Vilius haud Eegem terra emet ulla meum. 

Thorn. Fuller, Coll Sid. 



112 CHURCH HISTORY. 

VI. From ' Ayres and Dialogues for One. Two 
and Three Voyces. By Henry Lawes, Servant to 
his late Matie in his publick and private Musick. 
London, Printed by T. H. for John Playford and 
are to be sold at his shop in the inner Temple 
near the Church door 1653' folio — [page 36]. 

AN ECCHO. 

Imbre lachrymarum largo genas spargo, quavis 

au-rora, 
Dens cito tu venito, nunc nunc sine mora, ora : t 
Hoc non valet, semper oro, semper ploro cor de- 
ficit dolendo ; 
Te te amo ad te clamo, dato finem flendo endo. 
Peccatorum primus ego, hoc non nego, fateor vero : 
Sed tu Deus esto meus, in te solum spero, ero : 
Yox pergrata satis, satis, jam cedam fatis ; mor- 

tuus : vivam tamen : 
Hie cum morior, calo orior, magnum magnum hoc 
solamen. Amen. 

VII. In the Church-History 1 and ' Worthies ' 
and indeed into all his books Puller delights to 
introduce those bits of biographic fact and cha- 

1 The Church History of Britaiu : from the Birth of 
Jesus Christ until the year m.dc.xlyiii. Endeavoured by 
Thomas Fuller. London 1655 folio. 



CHURCH HISTORY. 113 

racter that are found in inscriptions on old 
brasses and other monuments in old cathedrals 
and in old, gray Churches and old books. He 
usually translates them as well as the snatches of 
Latin verse from ' Collections ' of the Universities 
and the like. Sometimes he does it under protest 
and sometimes refuses quaintly e.g. on King 
Lucius' s epitaph he says it had nothing in it 
1 worthy of translation ' and then with irrepres- 
sible wit goes on ' It seems the puddle-poet did 
hope that the jingling of his rhyme would drown 
the sound of his false quantity. Except any will 
say that he .affected to make the middle syllable 
in. idola short, because in the days of King Lucius, 
idolatry was curb'd and contracted, whilst Chris- 
tianity did dilate and extend itself.' [C. H. Book 
I. Cent. III. page 15]. These Verse-Translations 
make up the remainder of our Collection from 
Fuller's published Works. Such as are original 
not translated have a t after the number. With 
two slight exceptions all the others are from the 
Latin. The reader is referred to the several places 
for the Original. In a few cases I give the Latin 
along; with the translation. G. 



114 CHURCH HISTORY. 

1. ATban: martyr 

Here Alban, Eome ! thy citizen renown' d 
With rosy grace of martyrdom was crown'd. 
[Book L Cent. iv. page 17]. 

2. St German : 

thou that twice pierc'd Britain, cut asunder 
Prom the whole world, twice didst survey the 

wonder 
Of monstrous seas : — 

[Book I. Cent. v. page 31.] 

3. On a woman loho would enter a Church 
from which women were excluded : 

They build a Church where women may not enter 
One try'd but lost her life for her adventure. 
[Book II. Cent. vi. page 53]. 

4. Easter in Britain : 

No writings fond 1 we follow, but do hold 
Our country course, which Polycarp of old, 
Scholar to blessed John, to us hath given. 
For he, when th' moon had finish' d days twice 

seven, 
Bad us to keep the holy Paschal time 
And count dissenting for an hainous crime. 
[Book II. Cent. vii. page 69]. 

1 Foolish. G. 



CHURCH HISTORY. 115 

5. Lines from the Welsh of Taliesen {?)} 

Wo be to that Priest y-born 

That will not cleanly weed his corn, 

And preach, his charge among : 
Wo be to that Shepheard (I say) 
That will not watch his fold alway 

As to his office doth belong. 
Wo be to him that doth not keep 
From Bomish wolves his sheep 

With staffe and weapon strong. 
[Book II. Cent. vii. page 69]. 

1 For above, read more accurately Taliesin: and cf. 
Abp. Ussher's 'Religion anciently professed by the Irish 
and British (1861) c. X. : Elrington's Ussher Vol. iv. 353. 
On this Dr S. P. Tregelles writes me as follows : — " Ussher 
calls the writer Taliessyn, and he nses the lines to 'shew 
that he wrote after the coming of Austin into England, and 
not fifty or sixty years before, as others have imagined.' I 
however should use the contents of the lines, as shewing 
that Taliesin cannot be the author; and indeed an old 
Welsh copy ascribes them to 'Jonas the teacher of St 
Davids' (? 10th century). The later that they are, the more 
remarkable is the testimony against Eome in the ancient 
British Church, the origin of which belongs to a time when 
Ireland and Scotland were still in idolatry." After pointing 
out mistakes in the Welsh as given by Ussher and Fuller 
he adds, ' The poem from which the lines incorrectly as- 
cribed to Taliesin are taken, is given in p. 78 col. 2 of the 
new edition of the Welsh Archaiology, now in course of 
publication at Denbigh.' G. 



116 CHURCH HISTORY. 

6. On the Foundation of University of 
Cambridge. 

Grant 1 long ago a city of great fame 
From neighbouring river doth receive her name. 
When storms of Saxon-warres her overthrew 
Near to the old sprang np another new. 
Monk Felix, whils't he Sigebert obeys 
Light'ned this place with Schools and Learning's 

rayes. 
Searching the monuments of British nation 
This I assert in Grant's due commendation. 

[Leland : Book II. Cent. vii. page 75]. 

7. Victory of Oswald. ' Amongst the many 
victories atchieved by this Oswald, one most re- 
markable was gained by him near Hex[h]am in 
Northumberland, against the Pagans, against 
whom he erected the standard of the Crosse, in a 
place which time out of mind was called Heaf en- 
field (Haledon at this day 2 ) : by a prolepsis, not 
answering the name thereof until this time. 
Hence a Poet writing the life of Oswald [says] : — 

Then he began the reason first to know 
Of Heafen-feld, why it was called so ; 

1 Granta. G. 2 Scott's Halidon-hill. G. 



CHURCH HISTORY. 117 

Nam'd by the natives long since by foresight 
That in that field would hap an heavenly fight. 
[Anon y : Book II. Cent. vii. page 78]. 

8. On Oswald. — ' Whereupon Aidan laying 
hold on Oswald's right hand (and that alone we 
know ought to be the almoner [Matthew vi. 3] 
' May this hand ' (said he) ' never be consumed : ' 
which is said accordingly to come to passe/ 

ZSTo worm, no rottennesse taints his right hand : 
Corruption-free, in vain the cold doth strive 
To freeze, or heat to melt it, which doth stand 
Still at one stay : and though dead, is alive. 

Fuller slyly adds, ' But it is not enough for us 
that we have the poet's pen for it : if we also 
had Oswald's hand to shew for the same, much 
might be wrought on our behalf herein.' 
[Book II. Cent. vii. page 82]. 

9. On 6 Wilf ride's deprivation of the i Bishop- 
rick of York ' to which he had been appointed. 

Boldly in the husband's life 
Away from him they took his wife. 

' But by the poet's leave, York was but espoused 
not married to Wilfride, whilst he was in Eng- 
land : and after his going over beyond Sea, he 



118 CHUECH HISTORY. 

stayed so long that his Church presumed him 
dead and herself a maid-widow, which lawfully 
might receive another husband.' 

[Book II. Cent. vii. page 86]. 

10. Adelme, Bishop of Sherborn. [He] 'was 
the first of our English nation who wrote in 
Latine : and the first that taught Englishmen to 
make Latine verse, according to his promise, 

If life me last, that I do see that native soile of 

mine 
From Aon top I'll first with me bring down the 

Muses nine. 

[Book II. Cent. viii. page 95]. 

11. On ' Alba, since Rome, 1 from Aeneid 
(UK 3). 

Where under oakes on shore there shall be found 
A mighty sow, all white, cast on the ground, 
With thirty sucking piggs : that place is 'sign'd 
To build your town and ease your wearied mind. 
[Book II. Cent. viii. page 96]. 

12. Martyrdom of King Edmond : ' After 
many indignities offered unto him they bound 
him to a tree, and because he would not re- 
nounce his Christianity, shot him with arrow 



CHURCH HISTORY. 119 

after arrow : their cruelty taking deliberation 
that lie might the better digest one pain before 
another succeeded, so distinctly to protract his 
torture (though confusion be better than method 
in matters of cruelty) till not mercie but want of 
a mark made them desist : according to the 
poet's expression 

Eoom wants for wounds but arrows do not fail 
From foes, which thicker fly than winter hail. 

The Latin is vivid 

Jam loca vulneribus desunt, nee dum furiosis 

Tela, sed hyberna grandine plura volant. 

[Book II. Cent. ix. page 115]. 

13. Of Alfred and Edward. 

If that it happ't that conquered was he 
Next day to fight he quickly did prepare ; 

But if he chanc't the conquer our to be, 
Next day to fight he wisely did beware. 
[Book II. Cent. ix. page 122]. 

14. Dunstan : ' Eminency occasions envy, 
which made Dunstan's enemies endeavour to 
depresse him. He is accused to the king for a 
magician and upon that account banished the 
Court. It was brought as evidence against him 



120 CHURCH HISTORY. 

that lie made his harp not onely to have motion 
but made musick of itself, which no white-art 
could perform 

St Dunstan's harp fast by the wall 

Ypon a pin did hang-a : 
The harp itself, with ly and all 

Yntouch't by hand did twang-a. 

Tor our part let Dunstan's harp hang there still, 
on a double suspicion twisted together : first, 
whether this story thereof were true or false : 
secondly, if true, whether done by magick or 
miracle. Sure I am, as good a harper and a 
better saint than Dunstan was, hath no such 
miracle reported of him, even David himself, 
who with his harp praised God, pleased men, 
frighted devils; yet took pains with his own 
right hand [Psalm 137. 5] to play, not lazily 
commanding musick by miracle to be made on 
his instrument. ' 

[Eook II. Cent. x. page 128]. 

[Strange, quick-witted Fuller did not think 
of the iEolian harp, wind-played — which doubt- 
less the poor accused saint's instrument was 
transformed into, accidentally. G.] 

15. The good daughter of a bad father: 
6 Grant queen Edith a chast woman as she is 



CHURCH HISTORY. 121 

generally believed : daughter she was to a wicked 
father, Earle Godwin by name, whence the 
proverb 

From prickly stock as springs a rose 
So Edith from Earle Godwin grows. 

little ill being written of the daughter and no 
good of the father.' 

[Book II. Cent. xi. page 142]. 

16. On Francis I. ' captive in Spain' 

The captive King the Evil cures in Spain ; 
Dear, as before, he doth to God remain. 

' So it seemeth his medicinal! quality is affixed 
not to his prosperity but person.' 

[Book II. Cent. xi. page 147]. 

17. On translations of Scripture ' TJie Origi- 
nall preferred ;' ' Eicemarch a Britan, a right 
learned and godly clerk, son to Sulgen, bishop 
of St David's, nourishing in this age, made 
this epigram on those who translated the Psalter 
out of the Greek : so taking it at the second- 
hand and not drawing it immediately out of the 
first vessel ' — 

This harp the holy Hebrew text doth tender 
Which, to their power, whils't every one doth 
render 



1 22 CHUKCH HISTORY. 

In Latine tongue with, many variations 
He clouds the Hebrew rayes with, his translations. 
Thus liquors when twice shifted out, and pour'd 
In a third vessel, are both cool'd and sour'd. 
But holy Jerome truth to light doth bring 
Briefer and fuller, fetch' t from the Hebrew 
spring. 

[Book II. Cent xi. page 149]. 

18. Cutlibert receiving the 6 Communion' re- 
ceived i the cup' [on his death-bed]. 

His voyage 1 steep the easier to climbe up 
Christ's bloud he drank out of Life's healthfull 
cup. 

' Lest any should fondly hope to decline so fre- 
quent an instance by the novel conceit of con- 
comitancy (a distinction that could not speak 
because it was not horn in that age) it is punc- 
tually stated that he distinctly received the 

cup.' 

[Book II. Cent. xi. page 150]. 

19. Against Marriage: i Amongst all the 
foul mouthes belibelling marriage, one rayling 
rythmer of Anselme's age, bore away the bell 

1 = 4 Journey ' whether by land or sea : G. Glossary to 
my Sibbes, s.v, — G. 



CHUECH HISTOKY. 123 

(drinking surely of Styx instead of Helicon) and 
I am confident my translation is good enough 
for his bald verses — 

ye that ill live, attention give, unto my fol- 
lowing rhythmes ; 
Your wives, those dear mates, whom the higher 

power hates, see that ye leave them betimes. 
Leave them for H;s sake, who a conquest did 

make, and a crown and a cross did acquire, 
If any say no, I give them to know, they must 

all unto hell for their hire. 
The Spouse of Christ forbids that priest his 

ministerial function 
Because he did part with Christ in his heart, at 

his marriage-conjunction. 
We count them all mad (if any so bad) as daring 

herein to contest; 
Xor is it of spight, that this I indite, but out of 

pure love, I protest. 

[Book III. Cent. xii. page 22]. 

21. On a-Becketfs 'martyrdom? 

For Christ his Spouse, in Christ's Church, at the 
tide 
Of Christ his birth, Christ his true lover dy'd. 



124 CHURCH HISTORY. 

Who dies % a priest. Why? Tor's flock. How? 

By th' sword. 
When % At Christ's "birth. Where 1 Altar of the 

Lord. 

' Here I understand not, how properly it can be 
said that Becket died pro grege, for his flock. 
Hee did not die for feeding his flock, for any 
fundamental point of religion, or for defending 
his flock against the wolfe of any dangerous 
doctrine : but meerly he died for his flock : 
namely, that the sheep thereof (though ever so 
scabb'd) might not be dress'd with tarr, and other 
proper (but sharp e and smarting) medicines. I 
mean that the clergie might not be punished by 
the secular power, for their criminal enormities.' 

[Book III. Cent. xii. page 35J. 

21. On Henry II. 

He whom alive the world would scarce suffice 
When dead, in eight foot earth contented lies. 

[Book III. Cent. xii. page 40], 

22. Hugh Nevil : i Being one of the king's 
special familiars, slew a lion in the Holy Land, 
first driving an arrow into his breast and then 



CHURCH HISTORY. 125 

running him through with his sword, on whom 
this verse was made ' 



Viribus Hugonis vires periere ") The strength of Hugh 
Leonis. ) A lion slew. 



[Book III. Gent. xii. page 41]. 



23. On Richard 6 the Lion-hearted : i I finde 
two epitaphs made upon him, the first (better 
for the conceit then the poetry thereof) thus 
concludeth 

Three places thus are sharers of his fall 
Too little, one, for such a funeral. 

The second may pass for a good piece of poetry 
in that age. 

Richard thou liest here, but were Death afraid 
Of any armes, thy armes had Death dismaid. 

The Latin merits Fuller's praise. 

Hie Richarde jaces, sed Mors si cederet, armis 
Yicta timore tui, cederet ipsa tuis. 
[Book III. Cent. xii. page 46]. 

24. ' Learned Writers, Bale and Pitts.' 
c The column of learned writers I have endea- 
uoured to extract out of Bale and Pitts. Whereof 
the later being a member of this University was 
no less diligent then able to advance the honour 



126 CHURCH HISTORY. 

thereof. Let none suspect that I will enrich my 
Mother by robbing my Aunt. For besides that 
Cambridge is so conscientious, she will not be 
accessary to my felony by receiving stolen goods : ' 

Tros, Tyriusque mihi nullo discrimine habetur: 

A Trojan whether he 

Or a Tyrian be 

All is the same to me. 

[Book III. Cent. xiii. page 68]. 

25. Baconthorpb : 6 I [Fuller] had al- 
most over-seen John Baconthorpe being so low 
in stature as but one remove from a dwarfe, of 
whom one saith 

His wit was tall, in body small 

Insomuch that corpus non tulisset quod ingenium 
protulit, his body could not bear the books which 
his brain had brought forth. 7 

[Book III. Cent. xiv. page 97]. 

26. William Occam : [He] c sided with 
Lewis of Bavaria against the Pope, maintaining 
the temporal power above the spiritual; he was 
fain to flie to the emperor for his safety, saying 
unto him 



CHUKCH HISTORY. 127 

Defende me gladio et ego te defendam verbo 
Defend me with, thy sword and I will defend 
thee with my word. 

[Book III. Cent. xiv. page 98]. 

27. Edward for 'protection of his native 
subjects. 7 

He made a statute for Lombards in this Land, 
That they should in no wise take on hand 
Here to inhabit, here to charge and discharge, 
But forty dayes no more time had they large : 
This good king by wit of such appreife 
Kept his merchants and the sea from mischiefe. 

[Book III. Cent, xiv* page 113] . 

28. Rebellion of Wat Tyler and Jack 
Straiv : 'As the Philistines [1 Samuel xiii. 17] 
6 came out in three companies ' to destroy all the 
swords and smiths in Israel : so this rabble of 
rebells, making itself tripartite, endeavoured the 
rooting out of all pen-knives and all appearance 
of learning. One in Kent, under the aforesaid 
Wat and John : the second in Suffolk ; the third 
under John Littstarre a dier in Norfolke. The 
former of these is described in the Latin verses 
of John Gower, prince of poets in his time : of 
whom we will bestow the following translation.' 



128 CHURCH HISTORY, 

Tom comes, thereat, when call'd by Wat, and 

Simm as forward we finde, 
Bet calls as quick to Gibb and to Hykk, that 

neither wonld tarry behinde. 
Gibb, a good whelp of that litter, doth help mad 

Coll more mischief to do, 
And Will he doth vow, the time is come now, 

he'l joyn with their company too. 
Davie complains, whiles Grigg gets the games, 

and Hobb with them doth partake, 
Lorkin aloud, in the midst of the croud, con- 

ceiveth as deep is his stake. 
Hudde doth spoil, whom Judde doth foile, and 

Tebb lends his helping hand, 
But Jack, the mad "patch, men and houses 1 doth 

snatch, and kills all at his command. 
[Book IY. Cent. xiv. page 139]. 

29. Simon Sudbury : 'John Gower telleth 
us in his paralel of the martyring of Simon 
Sudbury, arch-bishop of Canterbury with Thomas 
Becket, his predecessor' 

But four conspir'd, Thomas, his blood to spill 
While hundred thousands Simon help to kill. 

[Book IY. Cent. xiv. page 140]. 

1 Qu : ' horses ? ' the Latin however is ' domos.' Gr. 



CHURCH HISTORY. 129 

30. Chaucer : ' Our Homer : onely herein he 
differed 

Maeonides nullas ipse reliquit opes. 
Homer himself did leave no pelf, 

whereas our Chaucer left behinde him a rich 
and worshipful estate.' 

[Book IY. Cent. xiv. page 151]. 

31. Chaucer : 

Of Alger Dants, Florence doth justly boast 
Of Petrarch brags all the Italian coast. 
England doth poet Chaucer reverence 
To whom our language owes its eloquence. 

'He was a great refiner and illuminer of our 
English tongue (and if he left it so bad, how 
much worse did he finde it 1) ' 

[Book IY. Cent. xiv. page 152], 

[' Alger Dants' [= Dante] renders Leland's. 
Praedicat Algerum merito Elorentia Dantem. G.] 

32. ' Eton and Grammer Learning.' — ' In- 
deed it was high time some School should be 
founded, considering how low grammer-learning 
ran then in the Land, as may appear by the fol- 
lowing verses made for King Henry the Eounder : 

i 



130 CHURCH HISTORY. 

as good no doubt as the generality of that age 
did afford, though (scarce deserving translation) 
so, that the worst scholar in Eaton Colledg that 
can make a verse can make a better ' — 

Devout King Henry, of that name the sixt 
Born (Mc'las) on thy day, this building fixt. 
In Eaton having plac'd a stone anointed 
In sign, it for the clergy was appointed. 
His prelates then were present, so the more 
To honour the King's acts, and holy chore. 
From Eastern midst, whereof just fourteen feet 
If any measure, they this stone shall meet ; 
Our holy James, his day, the sacred hand 
Of royal Henry caus'd this stone to stand. 

M. four C.'s, fourty six, since Christ was born 
When H. the crown twenty-five years had 
worn. 
[Book IY. Cent. xv. page 183]. 

33. Retribution : 

Most just it is that they bad laws who make 
Should themselves first of their own laws 
partake. 

' Thus those who break down the banks and let 
in the stream of arbitrary power (be it into the 



CHURCH HISTORY. 131 

hands of prince or people) are commonly the 
first themselves which without pity are drowned 
in the deluge thereof.' 

[Book V. Cent. xvi. page 234]. 

34. The Jesuits : c They had two most 
antient and nourishing convents beyond the 
seas ; Nola in Italy as I take it, where their 
home it seems gives a low for their armes, and 
La-Fletcha in France, where they have an arrow 
for their device : whereupon a satyrical wit thus 
guirded at them : and I hope I shall not be con- 
demned as accessary to his virulency, if onely 
plainly translating the same.' 

Nola to them did give a Bow 
La-Fletch an Arrow bring : 

But who upon them will bestow 
(What they deserve) — a string ] 
[Book VI. page 279]. 

35. Feasts of Ely Alley. 

When other Feasts before have been 
If those of Elie last be seen, 
'Tis like to one who hath seen night 
And then beholds the day so bright. 
[Book VI. page 299]. 



132 CHURCH HISTORY. 

26. Bells : 6 Such, frequent firing of Abbey- 
Churches by lightning, confuteth the proud 
motto commonly written on the bells in their 
steeples, wherein each bell intituled itself to a 
sixfold enicacie :' 

, .„ ' , ( P*n'g beatb 1 fell 

1. junera plango -L ' . . * . ; ¥f 

1§U vmM knell. 



2. Fulgura ) f ^gl^W Btrfr i^nhx 

Fulmina) ° (| break asuttber. 



3. Sabbata frango ; 



<©n ^abbaijj, ail 
%q €,\nn\ 1 eall. 



4. Excito lentos 



S;(j£ gleejjg Ireab 
| raise fram bb. 



i 
{ 

_. . ( %hz foinbs *0 fierxx 

5. Dissipo ventos. 1 M t v 

( 1 00* bisperge. 

( Rett's tntell rage 



6. Paco cruentos. 



| boe assxtage. 



[Book VI. page 301]. [Might have been a first 
(faint) sketch of Poe's memorable < Bells.' G.] 

37. Marshes of Mantua [Virgil]. 

There is no trusting to the found'ring bank 
The ramme still dries his fleece so lately dank. 
[Book VI. page 323]. 



CHURCH HISTORY. 133 

38. John Leland to Henry VIII. 

The sun shall sooner cease his shine to show 
And moon deny her lamp to men below ; 
The rapid seas shall sooner fishless slide, 
And bushes quite forget their birds to hide ; 
Great okes shall sooner cease to spread their 

bowers 
And Mora for to paint the meads with 

flowers, 
Than thou great King shall slip out of my 

breast 
My studies' gentle gale and quiet rest. 
[Book VI. page 339]. 

39. Against i the Masse. 1 — Of all his 
[Jewell's] pupils, Edward Year (so I conceive 
his name whom Lawrence Humphery in Jewel's 
life pp. 77 calls Edvardum Annum) in this one 
respect was most remarkable, who by his tutor 
being seasoned with the love of the truth, made 
a double copie of verses against the superstition 
of the Masse, which so enraged Mr Welsh, the 
Censor as I take it, of Corpus Christi Colledge, 
against him, that he publikely and cruelly whipt 
him, laying on one lash, for every verse he had 
made, which I conceive was about eighty in all. 
Part of them I have here thought fit to insert ; 



134 CHURCH HISTORY. 

and blessed be God I may translate, and the 
reader peruse them, without any pain and perill, 
and not at the dear rate, whereat the Author 
composed them. I have the rather printed them 
because they proved as well prophetical as poeti- 
cal, completely foretelling what afterwards came 
to pass.' 

Accept heavenly Father I request 

These few devotions from my humble breast : 
See their' s accesse, Heaven's gate open lyes, 

Then with my prayers I'll penetrate the skyes ; 
Great God, who all things seest, doth all things 
sway, 

And all things giv'st, and all things tak'st 
away, 
Let not the present Masse long-lived be, 

Nor let it those beguile belong to Thee : 
Thy people's eyes, keep it from blinding quite, 

Since to Thy word it is so opposite, 
But send it to the Stygian Lakes below : 

From whence it's rise and source doth spring 
and flow. 
The Lord, beholding from His Throne reply'd, 

Doubt not, young youth, firmly in Me 
confide. 
I dy'd long since, now sit at the right hand 

Of my bless'd Father, and the world command : 



CHURCH HISTORY, 135 

My body wholy dwels in heavenly light ' 

Of whom no earthly eye can gain a sight : 
The shamelesse priests, of Me forge trnthelesse 
lies 
And he that worships Masse, my Word 
denyes : 
A stifTeneck'd people for their sins did make 

Me send them Masse, my Word away to take ; 
But trust me, Scripture shall regain her sway 
And wicked Masse in due time fade away.' 
[Book VIII. Cent. xvi. page 9]. 

40. Dr Hugh Price : ' The said doctor in - 
scribed these following verses over the gate, 
when the building of the Colledge [Jesus, Ox- 
ford] was but begun : 

Hugh Price this palace did to Jesus build 
That a Law's doctor learned men might yield. 

But an Oxford author telle th us that a satyrical 
pen did under-write with wit and wagary enough, 
these folio wing verses : 

Hugh hath not built it yet ; may it be said 
He built it who hath scarce the ground-work laid] 
[Book IX. Cent. xvi. page 97]. 



136 CHURCH HISTORY. 

41. Cox, bishop of Ely: 'He was an excel- 
lent poet, though the verses written on his own 
tomb, are none of the best, and scarce worth our 
translating/ 

Trail life farewell, welcome life without end, 
Earth hides my corps, my soull doth heaven 

ascend ; 
Christ's cock on earth, I chanted Christ his 

name, 
Grant without end in heaven I sound the 

same, 

[The 'gallus' = cock, it is presumed was intended 
as a play on his own name of Cox. G.] 
[Book IX. Cent. xvi. page 111]. 

42. Verses by Mary Queen of Scots 'on a 
pane of glass at Buxton well.' 

Buxton who dost with waters warme excell 
By me, perchance, never more seen, farewell. 

' and at Fotheringhay Castle I have read written 
by her on a window, with a pointed diamond ' 

From the top of all my trust 
Mishap hath laid me in the dust 
[Book IX, Cent. xvi. page 181]. 



CHURCH HISTORY. 137 

43. Epitaph on ' Mr Luke Ghaloner ;' in 

'Dublin Colledge Chappel? 

This tomb within it, here contains 
Of Chaloner the sad remains. 
By whose prayer and helping hand 
This house erected here doth stand. 
[Book IX. Cent. xvi. page 212]. 

44. Humphrey Eli : 

Wonder not, England's dark with err ours night 
For loe here buried lies her sun so bright. 
[Book X. Cent. xvii. page 34]. 

45. Gunpowder Plot : 

Oh let that day be quite dash'd out of time 
And not believ'd by the next generation : 
In night of silence we'll conceal the crime, 
Thereby to save the credit of our nation. 
[Book X. Cent. xvii. page 38]. 

[Fuller has fine-spirited words on this i hyper- 
bolical rapture' in the context. G.] 

46. The Brothers Retinoids : 

What war is this ! when conquered both are glad 
And either to have conquered other, sad. 
[Book X. Cent. xvii. page 48]. 



138 CHURCH HISTORY. 

[I may be allowed to refer to my Memoir of Dr 
John Eainolds prefixed to reprint of his Com- 
mentaries on Obadiah and Haggai. G.]. 

47. ' Intended Colledge.'' — ' The untimely 
death of Prince Henry, our principal hope and 
the author of this designe' frustrated it : 7 



The modest Colledge blushed to be stronger 
Than was its lord : he died, it liv'd no longer. 



[A rendering of 

Erubuit Domino firmius esse suo. G.] 
[Book X. Cent. xvii. page 53]. 

48. Prince Henry : ' He was generally la- 
mented of the whole Land, both Universities 
publishing their verses in print : and give me 
leave to remember four made by Giles Fletcher 
of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, on this Prince's 
plain grave, because wanting an inscription : and 
it will be honour enough to me if I can make, 
thereof a translation : 

If wise, amaz'd depart this holy grave : 
Nor these new ashes ask, what names they have ? 
The graver, in concealing them was wise : 
For who-so knows, strait melts in tears and dies. 
[Book X. Cent. xvii. page 67]. 



CHURCH HISTORY. 139 

49. The famous, i Conference? ' Some are of 
opinion that the moderation and mutuall compli- 
ance of these Divines might have produced much 
good, if not interrupted, conceiving such lopping 
might have saved the felling of Episcopacy. Yea 
they are confident had this expedient been pur- 
sued and perfected/ 

Troy still had stood in power : 
And king Priam's lofty tower 
Had remained at this hower. 

It might under God have been a means not only 
to have checM but clwckt our Civil War in the 
infancy thereof.' 

[Book XI. Cent. xvii. page 175]. 

VIII. From History of University of 
Cambridge. 1 

1. Cambridge : 

Cambridge devoted to the Muses nine 
By learned Henries piety doth shine 
With learned men, which languages refine. 

[Page 2]. 

1 See ' History of the University of Cambridge since the 
Conquest. 1655' folio. 



140 CHURCH HISTORY. 

2. Humphrey Necton : 

Above the skies let's Humphrey Necton praise : 
For on him, first, Cambridge, confer' d the bayes : 
' that is, made him Doctor in Divinity' [Page 20]. 

3. Henry and Cliarles Brandon, Dukes of 
Suffolk ; ' They were much bemoaned, the Uni- 
versity printing a book on their funeralls, amongst 
which these following of Dr Parkhurst's, after- 
wards Bishop of Norwich, I shall endeavour to 
translate.' 

Castor and Pollux, brothers pair 
Breathing first Amide's air, 
Did with Death so bargaine make 
By exchange their turns to take. 
If that Death surprized one brother, 
Still alive should be the other. 
So the bargain was contriv'd 
Both dy'd, both by turns surviv'd. 
Why is fate more cruel grown 
Than she formerly was known % 
Wee of brothers had a brace 
Like to which did never grace 
This our English earth before, 
Nor the like shall grace it more. 
Both bright stars, and both did stand 
Hopefull bulwarks of the Land. 



PISGAH-SIGHT. 141 

Both, alas ! together slain 

Death at once did murther twaine. 

Nothing could their vertues move 

Nor King Edward's hearty love. 

Nor that best of mother's mones 

Nor all Britaine's heavy grones. 

Nothing could stern Death abate ; 

Oh cruel, over-cruel fate ! [Page 128]. 
[Charles died within ' twelve hours, of the same 
disease' with Henry. G]. 

IX. From Pisgah-Sight of Palestine. 1 

(a) Prom the letter-press. 
1. Wine of Palestine : ' Nor were their grapes 
less good than great, as a poet [Sidonius] — the 
most competent judge of the matter in hand — 
doth bear witness,' 

I have no Gaza, Chios, Palern wine 
Nor any flowing from Sarepta's vine. 

1 ' A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof : 
with the History of the Old and New Testament acted 
thereon. By Thomas Puller B.D. London 1662 ' folio. 

*„* It has escaped all his Biographers, that Fuller — like 
Samuel Ward — was also a designer and engraver (or etcher) 
as ' T. Fuller, fecit J shews, in some of the illustrations of 
this volume. See specially, the spirited series, Book 4. c. 
vi. page 97. G. 



142 PISGAH-SIGHT. 

Thus making a quadripartite division of good 
wine, two members thereof, that of Gaza and 
Sarepta, the one fals in the tribe of Simeon, the 
other of Asher, both in the country of Palestine/ 
[Page 10]. 

2. Libanus' Yews: 'The poet [Virgil] takes 
notice of the plenty of yew in this province 

Yew which in Ituria grows 
Is neatly bended into bows. 

Hence their inhabitants became excellent 
archers : and pity it was that their arrows were 
so often shot at a wrong mark — to kill and rob 
passengers in their journey. ' [Page 104]. 

3. Dagon : 

Upwards man-like he ascended 
Downwards like a fish he ended. 

[Page 220]. 

4. Semiramis and the doves: ' Near to this 
city [Askelon] there was a lake, by which Semi- 
ramis is said to be born, there fed and relieved 
by doves. Hence the poet Tibullus 'Alba 
Palestino sancta columba Syro.' 

The milk-white dove esteemed divine 
By Syrians of Palestine. [Page 235]. 



PISGAH-SIGHT. 143 

5. Levitds concubine: [Judges xix.] ' Oh ! the 
justice of Divine proceedings ! She had formerly 
been false to her husband * Culpa libido fuit, 
poena libido fuit.' 

By lust she sinned and 'twas just 

She should be punshed by lust. [Page 257]. 

6. Sepulchres: The ' heathen used in like 
manner to interr their dead in high-ways : yea 
their sepulchres served to measure the distances 
of places' [Virgil Eel : 9]. 

Hence ev'n mid-way it is for us : for near, 
Bianor's tomb beginneth to appear. [Page 298]. 

7. Tabernacle and Temple : 

Their faces neither diverse nor the same 
But such as sisters very well became. 

1 The latter being none other than the imita- 
tion of the former with proportionable addition : 
as indeed what is the Tabernacle of Grace but 
the Temple of Glory contracted or the Temple of 
Glory but the Tabernacle of Grace dilated-' 
[Page 358]. 



144 PISGAH SIGHT. 

8. Giants : Diomedes and Aeneas : Aeneas 
and Tumus : 

A stone he snatch' d and threw, a stone indeed 
So huge, so heavy, two men now had need 
To heave it up, such dwarfs our days do breed. — 
[Page 363]. 

9. Horses in sacrifice to the sun: i The Per- 
sians offered horses unto the Sun and Ovid ren- 
ders some reason thereof 

Horses to the beamed sun's the Persian's gift : 
Slow sacrifice ill fits a God so swift. [Page 386]. 

10. Dew [Genesis xxvii. 39.] c Behold thy 
dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of 
the dew of heaven from above.' Earth is by 
Isaac first mentioned because by Esau most 
minded. But oh the difference betwixt the dew 
of heaven in Jacob's and Esau's blessing ! [Genesis 
xxvii. 28]. In the former it signified God's favour 
with an undoubted right unto and sanctified use 
of, Divine promises, service and Sacraments : 
whereas in this blessing of Esau, heavenly dew, 
was in effect but earthly dew, temporall, terres- 
trial fertility, allowed to this mountainous land 
of Edom, whose lean hills were larded with 



PISGAH-SIGHT. 145 

many fruitful vallies interposed. Heathen 
authors confess [Statius] 

Whatever noble worth destils 
On Pontus nut-trees, or what ills 
The fruitful Idumean hils. 

[Page 30 : Book IY. c. 2.] 

11. Egypt. 

A Land content with home-bred ware 
For foreign wealth she doth not care, 
Or whether heavens do frown or smile, 
Her confidence is all in Mle. 
[Lucan Z. 8]. [Page 81 : Book 4. c. 5.] 

12. Mock-tears: [Jeremiah ix. 17, 18]. 

Thy tears were trusted : do they falshood know? 
Yea they have tricks, at will they come and go. 

[Ovid.] 

' But as parents when their children cry for 
nothing, use to beat them that they might cry for 
something : so God threatned that the miseries of 
Jerusalem should afterwards turn their faignedand 
strained wailings into sound and sincere sorrow : 
when those tears — formerly but the adopted 
children — should become the natural issue of 
their heavy hearts.' [Page 118. Book 4. c. 6.] 

K 



146 PISGAH-SIGHT. 

13. Idols: 'In all ages some were found 
who flouted at such superstitions : amongst these 
the poet brings in an idol thus speaking/ 
Time out of minde a fig-tree stock I grew, 
An useless block, before the workmen knew 
Benches or gods to make me — smal the ods — 
Eesolv'd at last of me to make his gods. 
[Page 126. Book 4 c. 7.] 

14. Idol-calf: [Virgil]. 

My calfe I lay — lest you mislike't, both tides 
She comes to th' pale [pail] and suckles twain 
besides. [Page 129 : Book 4 c. 7.] 

(b) From the Maps. 

(1) Engraved title-page 1650: 

Votum Authoris 

Terrestres Solymas mihi qui scripsisse dedisti, 

Gcelestes tandem des habitare, Devs. 

Dicat. T. F. 

(2) Prom General Map of Palestine— 1650. 

Yirio amplissimo 

Duo Guilielmo Paston, Equiti aureato 

disjunctissimoerum regionum Au7o7rXr? 

Omnia perlustra quae profert chartula lapsus 

Condona erranti recta tuere precor 

Nam tibi ludsea est, tibi tarn sunt ostia nili 

Quam tua mendicis hospita nota donius. 



PISGAH-SIGHT. 147 

(3) Map of Jerusalem— 1650 pp. 308. 

Eduardo Montagu 
Armigero, inter Juvenes 
doctos noblissimo nobiles 
doctissimo (quasi postliabi 
ta natalium claritate se 
totum litteris destinasset) 

filio 
Honoratissimi Eduardi 
Baronis Montagu, qui 
me languidum, exulem, nullum 
primus fouit, hospitio exce- 
pit, munincentia recreauit 

quin et 
quod omnium caput 
est, filiolum meum 
(senectutis meae spem 
vnicam) lib ere insti- 
tuendum curauit. 
Hierosolymarum 
Typumdedico. T. E. 1 

(4) Eragmenta Sacra:— 1650 B. v. p. 202. 
Nobibssimis viris Johanni et Eduardo 
Eussello, Erancisi nuper Comitis Bedforclia 
nliis natu minoribus. 

1 This is not given as verse, but as illustrating ' Hainous 
Sinne ' etc. dedication. G. 



148 HOLY WARRE. 

Fragmenta hsec vestri ne dedignentur Honores 

Sint Fragmenta licet, sunt ea Sacra tamen. 
Mensurae Ebrceae, priscae numismata Formae. 

Yestis Aaronis Mystica, quanta tegens ? 
Destructi (ah nriserum) Templi captiva supellex 

Eoma triumphatrix, Caesareumque Decus. 
Sic lacera in nimios Tabula est divisa locellos, 

Integer ad vester Totus et Author erit. 

X. From ' the Holy Wane ' * 
1. 



May he never speed 
Who from the issue censures of the deed. 



1 ' The Historie of the Holy Warre : By Thomas Fuller, 
B.D. . . . Cambridge 1651' folio. By the kindness of 
its possessor — Mr Winters, Church-yard, Waltham Abbey, — 
the following MS. lines written in a copy of the 'Holy 
Warre ' by some contemporary and admirer of our Worthy, 
are herewith subjoined: more accurately than as given in 
Notes and Queries [3d Series: 2d half 1867 p. 226]. Who 
was R. H. ? G. 

ON THE TITLE AND AUTHOK; 

Shall warr, the ofspring of rebellious pryde 

disturber of heuens peace, be glorifyed 

with a sacred epithite ? tis a iarr, 

that it should haue the tearme of Holy warr ; 

It is not surely meant the very thing 

is holy, but the holy cause doth bring 



HOLY WARRE. 149 

' Though an argument fetch.' t from the suc- 
cesse is but a cypkre in itself yet it increaseth 
a number when joyned with others.' 
[Page 16 :B. i. c. 10.] 

2. Bcddwine : 6 For the rest we referre the 
reader to the dull epitaph, written on his tombe, 
which (like the verses of that age) runneth in a 
kind of rhythme, though it can scarce stand on 
true feet : ' 

Baldwine another Maccabee for might 
Hope, help of State, of Church, and both's 

delight : 
Cedar, with Egypt's Dan of him afraid, 
Bloudy Damascus to him tribute paid : 
Alas ! here in this tombe is laid. 

[Page 62: B. II. c. 13.] 



a holy stile to a destructiue game ; 
A Turk may haue an honorable name : 
Yet warr is not unlawfull, though it kill ; 
the Circumstance doth make it good or ill : 
But howso'er the cause or matter bee, 
thy pithie lynes, and witt doe render thee 
let pryde and envie strugle what they can, 
Fuller, the holy, wise, and learned man. 

R: H: 



150 HOLY WARRE. 

3.t Alexius the Grecian emperour : 'We had 
almost forgotten what happened in this yeare — 
the death of Alexius, the Grecian emperour, that 
arch-hypocrite and grand enemie of this warre. 
On whom we may bestow this epitaph : 

If he of men the hest doth know to live 
Who hest knows to dissemble, justly then 
To thee, Alexius, we this praise must give, 
That thou to live didst know the best of men. 
And this was it at last did stop thy breath 
Thou knew'st not how to counterfeit with 
Death. [Page 64 : B. II. c. 14.] 

4. Lamentable death of King FuTk : ' He was 
slain in earnest as following his sport in hunting, 
to the great grief of his subjects. And we may 
heare him thus speaking his epitaph : 

A hare I hunted, and Death hunted me y 
The more my speed was, was the worse my 

speed : 
For as well-mounted I away did flee, 
Death caught and kill'd me, falling from my 
steed. 
Yet this mishap an happie misse I count 
That fell from horse that I to heaven might 
mount. [Page 74 : B. ii. c. 23.] 



HOLY WAKRE. 151 

5. Frederick, the worthy emperour : ' We may 
heare his sorrowful army speaking thus his 
epitaph unto him ' 

Earth scarce did yeeld ground enough for thy 

sword 
To conquer : how then could a brook afford 
Water to drown thee ? brook, which some doth 

fear 
(0 guilty conscience !) in a map t' appear. 
Yet blame we not the brook, but rather think 
The weight of our own sinnes did make thee 

sink. 
Now sith 'tis so, wee'l fetch a brackish main 
Out of our eyes, and drown thee once again. 
[Page 116: B. III. c. 4] 

6.t Conrade : ' This may serve for his epitaph 

The crown I never did enjoy alone \ 

Of half a kingdome I was half a king. 

Scarce was I on when I was off the throne ; 

Slain by two slaves, me basely murdering. 
And thus the best man's life at mercie lies 
Of vilest varlets that their own despise. 
[Page 125 : B. III. c. 10.] 



152 HOLY WARRE. 

7. King Guy : ' We then disniisse King Guy, 
hearing him thus taking his farewell ' 

I steer'd a State warre-tost against my will : 
Elame then the storm, not th' pilot's want of 

skill, 
That I the kingdome lost, whose empty 

style 
I sold to England's king for Cyprus isle. 
I pass'd away the Land I could not hold ; 
Good ground I bought, but only aire I sold. 
Then as a happy merchant may I sing 
Though I must sigh as an unhappy king. 
[Page 126 : B. III. c. 10.] 

8. ' King Richard taken prisoner in Austria : 
sold and sent to the emperour : dearly ransomed, 
returneth home ' — ' After this money, Peter of 
Bloys (who had drunk as deep of Helicon as any 
of that age) sendeth this good prayer : making an 
apostrophe to the emperour or to the Duke of 
Austria or to both together ' 

And now, thou basest avarice 

Drink till thy belly burst, 
Whii'st England poures large silver 
showres 

To satiate thy thirst. 



THE HOLY STATE. 153 

And this we pray, Thy money may 
And thou be like accurst. 
[Page 131: B. III. c. 13.] 

9. French-rhyme: Crusades. 

Jesus Lord ! repair our losse ; 
Eestore to us thy holy crosse. 
[Page 152 : B. III. c. 24.] 

10. 'Hie pastor ells hilled in France:' 'A 
rhymer of that age (or in courtesie call him a 
poet,) made this epitaph on them : 

Learn to put together well 
What M. C. C. L. I. do spell ; 
When some devilish fiend in Prance 
Did teach the Shepherds how to dance. 
[Page 206 : B. IV. c. 21.] 

XL Prom < the Holy State ' 1 

) 1. The Elder Brother : ' He rather desires his 
father's life than his living. This was one of the 
principal reasons (but God knows how true) why 



1 ' The Holy State. By Thomas Fuller B.D. and Pre- 
bendary of Sarmn. 4° edn. London, 1663' folio. 



154 THE HOLT STATE. 

Philip the second, king of Spain, caused in the 
year 1568, Charles, his eldest son to he executed 
for plotting his father's death, as was pretended. 
And a wit [Opmerus (?)] in such difficult toyes 
accommodated the numeral letters in Ovid's verse 
to the year wherein the Prince suffered. 

Pilivs ante DIeM patnos Inqvirlt In annos 

1568. 
Before the tIMe the oVer-hasty sonne 
Seeks forth ho W near the father's Life Is Done. 
[B. I. c. 14. page 41.] 

1568. 

2. The younger brother : c To use the herald's 
language, he may say' 

This to my elder hrother I must yield 
I have the charge hut he hath all the field. 
[B. I. c. 15. p. 42.] 

3. Julius Scaliger : i His skill in physick was 
as great as his practice therein was happy : in so 
much that he did many strange and admirable 
cures. Hear how a noble and learned pen 
[Stephanus Boetius] doth commend him' 

On snowy Caucasus there grew no root 
Of secret power, but he was privy to't ; 



THE HOLY STATE. 155 

On cold Eipliean hills no simple grew, 
But lie the force thereof and virtue knew : 
Wherewith — apply' d by his successful art — 
Such sullen souls as would this world depart, 
He forc't still in their bodies to remain 
And from death's door fetch' d others back again. 
[B. II. c. 8 page 71.] 

4. The faithful minister : c He counts the 
success of his ministry the greatest preferment. 
Yet herein God hath humbled many painful 
pastours, in making them to be clouds, to rain 
not over Arabia the happy but over the stony 
or desert : so that they may complain with the 
herdsman in the poet 

My starveling bull 
Ah ! woe is me ! 
In pasture full 
How lean is he ! 
[B. II. c. 9 page 77.] 

5. William Perkins : ' He was of a ruddy 
complexion, very fat and corpulent, lame of his 
right hand : and yet this Ehud with a left-handed 
pen did shake the Eomish cause and as one 
[Holland] saith 



156 THE HOLY STATE. 

Though nature thee of thy right hand bereft 
Eight well thou writest with the hand that's 
left. 

[The Latin may interest : 

Dextera quantumvis fuerat tibi manca, docendi 
Pollebas mira dexteritate tamen. G.] 
[B. II. c. 11. page 84.] 

6. Simony : ' We confess it a personal vice 
amongst us, but not to be charged as a Church- 
sin : which by penal laws it doth both prohibit 
and punish. Did Eome herein look upon the 
dust behind her own doors, she would have but 
little cause to call her neighbour slut. What 
saith the epigram ] 

That Peter was at Eome, there's strife about it 
That Simon was there, none ever did doubt it. 

[The Latin is as follows : 

An Petrus fuerat Eomae, sub judice lis est 
Simonem Eomae nemo fuisse negat. G.] 
[B. II. c. 12. page 88.] 

7. The good patron : 4 Afterwards, to invite 
lay-men to build and endow Churches, the Bishops 



THE HOLY STATE. 157 

departed with their right, to the lay-patrons, 
according to the verse 

A patron's he that did endow with lands 
Or built the Church or on whose ground it 
stands. 

it being conceived reasonable that he who paid 
the Churche's portion should have the main 
stroke in providing her an husband.' [B. II. c. 12. 
page 87.] 

8. Hope disappointed: l Daily experience 
tenders too many examples. A gentleman who 
gave a basilisk for his arms or crest, promised to 
make a young kinsman of his, his heir, which 
kinsman to ingratiate ' himself painted a basilisk 
in his study and beneath it these verses' 

Falleris aspectu basiliscum occidere, Plini 
Nam vitas nostras spem basiliscus alit 

The basilisk's the onely stay 

My life preserving still ■ 

Pliny, thou li'dst when thou didst say 

The basilisk doth kill. 

But this rich gentleman dying, frustrated his ex- 



158 THE HOLY STATE. 

pectation and bequeathed all his estate to another, 
whereupon the epigram was thus altered. 

Certe aluit, sed spe vana, spes vana venenum : 

Ignoscas, Plini, verus es historicvs. 

Indeed vain hopes to me he gave, 

Whence I my poison drew : 

Pliny, thy pardon now I crave 

Thy writings are too true. 

[B. III. c. 9. page 161.] 

9. Tomhes ; "Tis a provident way to make 
one's tombe in one's lifetime, both hereby to pre- 
vent the negligence of heirs and to mind him of 
his mortality. Yirgil tells us that when bees 
swarm in the aire and two armies meeting to- 
gether, fight as it were a set battel with great 
violence, cast but a little dust upon them and they 
will be quiet.' 

These stirrings of their minds, and strivings vast 

If but a little dust on them be cast 

Are straitwayes stinted and quite over-past. 

Thus the most ambitious motions and thoughts 
of man's mind are quickly quell' d when dust is 
thrown on him, whereof his fore-prepared sepul- 
chre is an excellent remembrancer. 
[B. III. c. 14. page 175.] 



THE HOLY STATE. 159 

1 0. The same : 6 Thus love if not to the dead, 
to the living, will make him if not a grave, a hole : 
and it was the begger's epitaph Nudus eram vivus, 
mortuus ecce tegor. 

Naked I liv'd, but being dead 
Now behold I'am covered. 

[B. III. c. 14. page 177.] 

ll.t Finis : ' "When one had set out a witless 
pamphlet, writing Finis at the end thereof, an- 
other wittily wrote beneath it 

■ Nay there thou li'st my friend 



In writing foolish books there is no end. 
[B. III. c. 18. page 187.] 

[The ' another' was doubtless Fuller himself. G.]. 

12. Moderation: 

Both ends o' th' table furnish'd are with meat 
Whilst they in middle nothing had to eat. 
They were none of the wisest well I wist 
Who made bliss in the middle to consist. 
[B. III. c. 20. page 202.] 



160 THE HOLY STATE. 

13. Gravitie: i That may be done privately 
without breach of gravity, which may not be done 
publickly. As when a father makes himself his 
child's rattle, sporting with him till the father 
hath devoured the wise man in him, Equitans in 
arundine longa. 

Instead of stately steed 
Riding upon a reed. 
[B. III. c. 21 page 205.] 

14. 'Grand'* Churches: 

The Church did blush more glory for to have 
Then had her Lord. He begg'd : should she be 
brave. [B. III. c. 24. page 217.] 

15. The good Bishop : i In his grave writings 
he aims at God's glory and the Church's peace, 
with that worthy prelate, the second Jewel of 
Salisbury, whose comments and controversies will 
transmit his memory to all posterity : 

Whose dying pen did write of Christian 

Union 
How Church with Church might safely keep 

Communion. 
Commend his care, although the cure do misse : 
The woe is ours, the happinesse is his : 



THE HOLY STATE. 161 

Who finding discords daily to encrease 
Because lie could not live would dy, in peace. 
[B. IV c. 9. page 270.] 

[Davenant is referred to : his mother was sister of 
Fuller's. G.]. 

16. Augustine: 6 His diet was very cleanly 
and sparing, yet hospitable in the entertaining of 
others : and had this distich wrote on his table' 

He that doth love an absent friend to jeer 
May hence depart, no room is for him here. 
[B. IV. c. 10. page 275.] 

1 7. Ridley and Hooper : i In like manner, 
not much before, his [Eidley] dear friend, Master 
Hooper suffered with great torment : the wind 
(which too often is the bellows of great fires) 
blowing it away from him once or twice. Of all 
the martyrs in those days, these two endured most 
pain, it being true that each of them querebat in 
ignibus ignes : ' 

And still he did desire 
For fire in midd'st of fire 



162 THE HOLY STATE. 

both, desiring to burn and yet both their upper 
parts were but confessours when their lower parts 
were martyrs and burnt to ashes.' 

[B. IV. c. 11. page 283.] 

1 8. Lady Jane Grey ; 

What eyes thou readst with Header, know I not : 
Mine were not dry when I this story wrote. 
[B. IV. c. 14. page 298.] 

19. Queen Elizabeth and the Spanish Em- 
bassadour : i Nor was her poetick vein less happy 
in Latine. When a little before the Spanish inva- 
sion in '88, the Spanish embassadour (after a 
larger representation in his master's demands) had 
summed up the effect thereof in a tetrastitch, who 
instantly in one verse rejoyned her answer. We 
will presume to English both, though confessing 
the Latine loseth lustre by the translation.' 

These to you are our commands, 
Send no help to th' Netherlands : 
Of the treasure took by Drake 
Eestitution you must make : 
And those abbies built anew 
Which your father overthrew : 
If for any peace you hope 
In all points restore the Pope. 



THE HOLY STATE. 163 

The Queen's extempore return : 
Ad Grecas, bone rex, fiant mandata calendas 
Worthy king, know this your will 
At latter Lammas wee'l fulfil. 
[B. IY. c. 15. page 303.] 

20. Gustavus Addlphus: 'I find a most 
learned pen [Hakewill] apply these Latin verses 
to this noble prince : and it is honour enough 
for us to translate them' 

More then a Priest he in the Church might 

pass. 
More then a Prince in Commonwealth he was. 
More then a Counseller in points of State. 
More then a Lawyer matters to bebate. 
More then a General to command outright. 
More then a Souldier to perform a fight. 
More then a man to bear affliction strong. 
More then a man good to forgive a wrong. 
More then a Patriot countrey to defend. 
True friendship to maintain, more then a 

Friend. 
More then familiar sweetly to converse. 
And though in sports more then a lion fierce ; 
To hunt and kill the game ; yet be exprest 
More then Philosopher in all the rest. 
[B. IY. c. 18. page 321.] 



164 THE HOLY STATE. 

21. Heir-apparent: 

His worth, above his wealth appears 
And vertues go beyond his years. 
[B. IY. c. 19. page 322.] 

XI. From the Profane State. x 

1. The harlot : ' Besides by many wicked 
devices she seeks on purpose to make herself 
barren' . 

Which wicked projects first from hell did flow, 
And thither let the same in silence go, 
Best known of them who did them never know. 
[B. Y. c. 1. page 345.] 

2. Joan of Arc : 

Cruelty to a woman 
Brings honour unto no man. 

i We will close the different opinions which 
several Authours had of her, with this epitaph : ' 

Here lies Joan of Arc, the which 

Some count saint and some count witch ; 



1 ' The Profane State. By Thomas Fuller B.D. and Pre- 
bendary of Sarum. London 1663 ' folio. 



THE HOLY STATE. 165 

Some count man and something more ; 
Some count maid and some a whore ; 
Her life's in question, wrong or right: 
Her death's in doubt, by laws or might 
Oh innocence take heed of it 
How thou too near to guilt dost sit. 
(Meantime France a wonder said 
A woman rule 'gainst Salique law) 
But, reader, be content to stay 
Thy censure till the Judgment-day : 
Then shalt thou know and not before 
Whether saint, witch, man, maid or whore. 
[B. Y. c. 5. pp. 363, 364.] 

3. Atheist : 

On earth were atheists many 
In hell there is not any. 
[B. v. c. 7. page 368.] 

4. Jehu: 

Three weaklings we, a wife for war too mild 
Laertes old, Telemachus a child. 

So thrice a year should Jehu onely be king 
over such an impotent company of old men, 
women and children.' [B. Y c. 9. page 377.] 



166 ABEL REDEVIVUS. 

5. t Abolition of Universities : 

Which we believe and wish may then be done 
When all blear eyes have quite put out the sun. 
[B. Y. c. 11. page 387.] 1 

6. TJie Liar ; 

When Jesuits unto us answer, Nay 
They do not English speak, 'tis Greek they say. 
[B. V. c. 12. page 390.] 

XII. From 'Abel Bedevivus.' 2 
1. Berengarius : [of Tours: Born (probably 

1 Fuller's authority for his preposterous accusation in the 
context, of Greenwood and Barrow is 'Dr Soame's writing 
against them: lib. 2. page 4. But as against Soames see 
' A True Relation of Two Merchants of London, who were 
taken Prisoners by the Cavaliers, and of the barbarous 
cruelty inflicted on them : together with the great familiarity 
of Dr Soames, Vicar of Staynes with the Cavaliers and 
of their familiarities with his daughters 1642. [4°]. G. 

2 ' Abel Eedevivus [sic] : or the Dead yet Speaking. The 
Lives and Deaths of the modern Divines ; written by several 
able and learned men 1651' [4°J Fuller names Beren- 
garius, Huss, Jerome, Cranmer, Fox, Junius and Perkins as 
by himself, and adds ' etc.' The ' most part of the poetry' he 
assigns to Master Quarles, father and son : but I understand 
this to exclude the ' Lines ' in his own Lives. 'Abel Eede- 
vivus ' has been re-printed under the supervision of ' William 
Nichols ' for Tegg : modernized but very fairly if rather pe- 
dantically edited. 2 vols. cr. 8° 1867. G. 



ABEL REDEVIVUS. 167 

in 1020) Died January 6th 1088. GL] < We leave 
him to stand or fall to his owne Master, according 
to that concluding disticke, which we find in an 
author :' 

Ciim nihil ipse vides propria quin labe laboret 
Tu tua fac cures, csetera mitte D eo. 

6 Seeing nought thou seest but faults are in the best 
Looke thou unto thyselfe, leave God the rest.' 
[Pp. 7, 8.] 

Most worthily may this Divine 

Old Berengarius, fairely shine 

Within this skie of lustrious starres 

Who 'gainst Eome's errorours foughtTruth's warres : 

Confuting, with high approbation 

Rome's figment, Transubstantiation ; 

Which did that hierarchie so vex 

And with such passion so perplex 

That they would never give him rest 

But did his soule so much molest, 

That at the last, by fraud and force 

They made him — with most sad remorse — 

Two several times his cause recant ; 

Him of his crown thus to supplant. 

Thus, 0, thus, oft, Sol's rayes most rare 

With duskie clouds ecclipsed are. 



168 ABEL KEDEVIVUS. 

2. John Huss : [Eeformer and Martyr : 
Born 1376 (?) : Died July 7th 1415. G.] 

This most illustrious lamp of Gospel light 
Which in Bohemia first shon forth most bright 
By this renowned martyres industry, — 
Heavenly, heroick Huss, yet furiously 
Affronted was by Papall enemies. 
But in the midst of this their rage, did rise 
Among themselves, a mighty schisme and rent 
Three anti-popes at once : by which event 
Benowned Huss did great advantage gain, 
The Gospel's light to propagate, maintain. 
But, at the last, that schism being sew'd-up 
Againe they fill their wrath's and rage's cup ; 
And gave it Huss to drink, who valiantly 
Drank-up the same, to death's extremity : 
And though they painted-devils placed on his 

head 1 
Yet he their scorn and rage did nothing dread. 
Thus, faithlesse Rome, breaking her promise given. 
In fiery-chariot sent his soul to heaven. 
[Page 20.] 



1 ' A paper, whereon devils were anticly [= grotesquely] 
painted, was put upon him; he wearing those shadows 
on his head, whose substance his enemies felt in . their 
heart.' F. 



ABEL REDEVIVUS. 169 

3. Jerome op Prague : [Reformer and Mar- 
tyr: Born 1378 (I) : Died May 30th 1416. G.] 

This brave Bohemian worthy may, indeed 
His brother Huss most worthily succeed ; 
And, as two twins, for their heroic spirit, 
The one the other's honour may inherit. 
For by John Huss, Jerome was blestly ayded, 
Where by the Bomish-rout he was invaded : 
And Jerome, hearing Huss was wrong' d by Borne 
To vindicate his quarrell did presume ; 
But, in the tryal, found his heeles tript up 
Fearfull (by Bomish rage) to taste his cup. 
Yet, at Jhe last, that tempting blast ore blown 
His doubled and redoubled zeal was shown ; 
Stoutly recanting his forced recantation, 
To th' death he hated Borne' s abomination. 
Which did their Bomish furie so inflame, 
That, torturing him, they tygers fierce became : 
His bead (like Huss) with painted divels array' d 
His soule to heaven outrageous names convay'd. 
[Page 30.] 

4. Cranmer [Beformer and Martyr : Born 
1489 : Died March 21, 1556. G.] 

'Twas not inticing honour could remove 
The constant heart of Cranmer from the love 
Of sound divinity ; he alwayes stood 



170 ABEL REDEVIVUS. 

Firme to God's cause, and dy'd it with his blood. 
A true seraphicke and tyrannicke fire 
Proved — as it were — ambitious to aspire : 
And both prevail' d, being willing to controule ; 
Th' one burnt his body, th' other cured his soule. 
Image-adoring Papists, boast your fils \ 
Ye sent a soul to heaven against your wils. 
What can ye say, but this, — your rage was spent ; 
Ye did him good, though with an ill intent ] 
Pricke up your eares and heare this fatall tone, 
Those fires which made him screek, will make 
you gron. [Page 228.] 

5. John Fox or Foxe [' Martyrologist : ' Born 
1517 : Died April 18, 1587. G.] 

Pare Fox (well furr'd with patience) liv'd a life 
In's youthfull age devoted unto strife ; 
For the blind Papists of those frantick times 
Esteem' d his virtues as his greatest crimes. 
The hot persuit of their ful crying hounds 
Forced him to flye beyond the lawlesse bounds : 
Of their hot-sented malice : though their skill 
Was great in hunting, yet our Fox was still 
Too crafty for them : though they ranged about 
From place to place, they could not finde him out : 
And when they saw their plots could not prevaile 
To bless their noses with his whisking taile, 
They howl'd out curses, but could not obtain ; 



ABEL REDEVIVUS. 171 

Their prey being fled, their curses proved in vaine : 

From whence I think this proverb came at first, — 

' Most thrives the Fox that most of all is curst.' 

[Page 383.] 

6. Fr. Junius [French Protestant : Born 
1545: Died Oct. 13, 1602. G.] 

Reader, observe, and thou shalt finde 
A rare and well-reformed minde : 
He that in his youthfull dayes 
Scorch'd his conscience by the blaze 
Of wanton fifes, refused at last 
The heat of an atheisticke blast ; 
He started from the deep abyss 
Of vilenesse to the height of bliss ; 
And then that light which fil'd his breast 
Gave himselfe and others rest ; 
That they which did before contemne 
His deeds, imbraced him as a jem ; 
And thought him fitting to be set 
Within the Church's cabonet, 
His vertue pay'd what vice had scoared 
And age abhor' d what youth adored. 
[Page 450.] 



172 MIXT CONTEMPLATIONS AND 

7. William Perkins [Divine: Born 1558: 
Died 1602. G.] 

Of all the worthies in this learned role, 
Our English Perkins may, without controle, 
Challenge a crowne of bayes to deck his head 
And second unto none be numbered, 
Eor's learning, wit and worthy parts divine, 
Wherein his fame resplendently did shine 
Abroad and eke at home, for's preaching rare 
And learned writings almost past compare ; 
Which were so high esteem' d, that some of them 
Translated were (as a most precious jem) 
Into the Latine, French, Dutch, Spanish tongue, 
And rarely valued both of old and young. 
And (which was very rare) them all did write 
With his left hand, his right being useless quite : 
Borne in the first, dying in the last, year 
Of Queen Eliza, a princesse without peer. 
[Page 440.] 

XIV. Erom ' Mixt Contemplations on These 
Times' and ' Personal Meditations:' in all the 
collected editions of ' Good Thoughts,' etc. 

1 . All for the present : ' Oh ! give me that 
good man's gracious temper who earnestly desired 
the prosperity of the Church, whatsoever became 



PERSONAL MEDITATIONS. 173 

of himself, whose verses I will offer to trans- 
late.' 

Buried in earth or drown' d in th' main 

Eat up by worms or fishes : 
I pray the pious may obtain 

For happy times, their wishes. 
[M. C. XXII.] 

2. Niniveh : ' But what is now become of 
Niniveh *? It is even buried in its own ruins and 
may have this epitaph upon it :' 

Hie jacet finis infiniti 
Here lieth the end of what was endless. 
[Ibid. XXIX.] 

3. Good augury : ' I was much affected with 
reading that distick in Ovid, as having somewhat 
extraordinary therein :' 

Tarpeia quondam predixit ab iliee cornix 
Est, bene non potiut clicere, dixit, erit. 
The crow sometimes did sit and spell 1 

On top of Tarpie-hall ; 
She could not say cdVs ivell, alVs well 
But said it shall, it shall 

1 To fore -tell ; hence spelmau. F. 



174 THE WORTHIES. 

' But what do I listen to the language of the 

crow, whose black colours hath a cast of hell 

therein, in superstitious soothsaying. Let us 

hearken to what the dove of the Holy Spirit saith.' 

. [M. C. XXXV.] 

4. Ovid's line : 
Father an me pity take 
Verses I no more will make. (P. M. XL) 

XIY. From the < Worthies.' 1 

1. Scarlet-habit of Cardinals : i whereof Theo- 
dore Beza tartly enough thus expresseth himself:' 

My clothes in purple liquor ne'er were stew'd, 
Nor garments (trust me) richly dy'd in grain. 

Those robes you see so red, I have imbrew'd 
In gore of guiltless saints, whom I have slain. 

Or, mindful of the faults they hide, with shame 
The bashful clothes do blush their wearer's 
blame. [C. IY. page 15.] 

2. Lord Chancellors : ' I find another nota- 
tion of this office, some deducing his name a 
cancellando from cancelling things amisse, and 



1 ' The History of the "Worthies of England. Endeavoured 
by Thomas Fuller, D.D. London, 1662,' folio. 



THE WORTHIES. 175 

rectifying them by the rules of equity and a good 
conscience : and this relateth to no meaner author 
then Johannes Sarisburiensis.' 

'Tis he, who cancelleth all cruel lawes, 

And in kings' mandates equity doth cause. 

If aught to Land or laws, doth hurtful prove, 
The care that hurt doth speedily remove. 
[C. VI. page 16 mispaged.] 

3. Needless books : ' Solomon was sensible of 
this vanity, even in his time, when pronouncing 
" of books there is no end." The heathen poet 
took notice thereof, Scribimus indocti doctique 
Pcemata passim : ' 

Poems write a main we do 

Learned and unlearned too. 

[C. X. page 29.] 

4. Modern pamphleteers : ' Here I expect that 
the judicious reader will excuse me, if I take no 
notice of many modern pamphleteers : seeing 
unlearned scribblers are not ranked with learned 
writers ; yea it was, though tartly, truly said, to 
the author of such a book : ' 

Whilst others flow -with faults, but one is past 
In all thy book : 'tis fault from first to last. 



176 THE WORTHIES. 

' Indeed the Press, at first a virgin, then a chaste 
wife, is since tnrned common, as to prostitute 
herself to all scurrilous pamphlets.' ' 
[C. X. pages 29, 30.] 

5.t Henry Keble, Lord Mayor of London, 
1511 : ' who besides other benefactions in his life- 
time, re-builded Alder-Mary-Church run to very 
mines, and bequeathed at his death a thousand 
pounds for the finishing thereof. Yet within 
sixty years after, his bones were unkindly yea 
inhumanely, cast out of the vaulte wherein they 
were buried, his monument plucked down for 
some wealthy person of the present times, to be 
buried therein. I could not but on this occasion 
rub up my old poetry : ' 

Tacit Indignatio Versus. 
The Author to Alder-Mary Church. 

6 Ungrateful Church, orerun with rust 
Lately buried in the dust ; 
Utterly thou hadst been lost, 
If not preserv'd by Keble' s cost : 
A thousand pounds, might it not buy 
Six foot in length for him to lie ? 
But, ousted of his quiet tombe, 
For later corps he must make roome : 



THE WORTHIES. 177 

Tell me where his dust is cast 
Thought be late, yet now at last ; 
All his bones with scorne ejected, 
I will see them re-collected : 
Who faine myself would kinsman prove 
To all that did God's temples love. 

Alder-Mary Churche's Answer. 

' Alas % my innocence excuse : 
My Wardens they did me abuse. 
Whose avarice his ashes sold 
That goodness might give place to gold ; 
As for his reliques, all the town 
They are scattered up and down ; 
Seest a Church repaired well % 
There a sprinkling of them fell : 
See'st a new Church lately built % 
Thicker there his ashes spilt : 
that all the Land throughout 
Keble's dust were throune about ; 
Places scattered with that seed 
Would a crop of Churches breed.' 
[C. XL page 33.] 

6. Exhortation to deeds of charity : l The 
best- disposed to bounty may need a remembran- 
cer : and I am sure that nightingale which would 
wake, will not be angry with the thorn which 

M 



178 THE WORTHIES. 

pricketh her breast when she noddeth. Besides 
it is a truth what the poet saith,' 

Who, what thou dost, thee for to do doth move 

Doth praise thy practice and thy deeds approve. 

[C. XI. page 39.] 

7. Altering of surnames : c Hence it is that 
the same name hath been so often disguised unto 
the staggering of many, who have mistook them 
for different : Idem non idem, queruntque in 
nomine nomenH 

The same they thought was not the same ; 
And in their name they sought their name. 

6 Thus I am informed that the honourable name 
of Yilliers is written in fourteen several ways, 
in their own evidence.' [C. XVII. page 51.] 
[Shakespeare, Ealeigh, Sibbes, Airay, afford like 
examples. G.] 

8. Associates of a maris life : 

We by their company do own 
Men by themselves to us unknow r n. 

The Latin is 

Noscitur e socio qui non noscetur ab ipso. 
[C. XX. page 55.] 



THE WORTHIES. 179 

9. Descents : l If enquiry be made into all 
men's descents, it would be found true what the 
poet doth shewe :' 

The first of all thine ancestors of yore 

Was but a shepheard, or 1 say no more. 

[C. XXV. page 74.] 

10. l Haste makes waste? — Objection to the 
Worthies ' prevented ' [ = ■ anticipated/ G.] 
1 You have hudled your book too soon to the presse, 
for a subject of such a nature. You should have 
sent to the gentry of several counties, to have 
furnished you with memorables out of their own 
pedegrees and should have taken a longer time 
to compose them.' 

1 Eight years digest what you have rudely hinted, 
And in the ninth year let the same be printed !' 

Ansiver. 6 That ninth year might happen eight 
years after my death, being sensible of the im- 
pression of age upon me ; and a stranger to my 
method would hardly rally my scattered post- 
humed notes.' [C. XXY. page 74.] [The 
' Worthies ' did prove to be ' posthume ' and the 
son brought it out with little of the skill or care 
of the father as the many blundering folio, 
shews. G.] 



180 THE WOETHIES. 

11. Episcopacy and Presbytery: Objection: 
6 In your Protestant writers you promiscuously 
mingle some very zealous for Episcopacy, others 
as active for Presbytery.' . . Answer : ' I had 
rather privately bemoan than publickly proclaim 
the difference betwixt them when alive : charit- 
ably believing that being dead 

Now they are agreed well 
And in bliss together dwell.' 
[C. XXV. page 74.] 

12. Living persons : Objection: 'You have 
omitted many memorable persons still surviving, 
as meriting as any you have inserted. Answer : 
The return of Martial in a case not much unlike 
may much befriend me herein :' 

Deceased authors thou admir'st alone 
And only praisest poets dead and gone. 
Yacerra, pardon me : I will not buy 
Thy praise so dear as for the same to dye. 

' All men being like-minded with Martial here- 
in, none surviving will distaste their omission in 
a work, for reasons afore alledged (save in some 
cases) confined to the memories of the departed.' 
[C. XXV. page 76.] 



THE WORTHIES. 181 

13. Numerousness of'ivriters :\ Omissions are 
apologized for ' for their numerousnesse and there- 
fore I may make use of the Latine distick where- 
with John Pitseus closeth his book of English 
writers.' 

More yolums to our volums must we bind ; 
And when that's done, a bound we cannot find. 
[C. XXVL page 79.] 

14. Birth-place: 

A thankful man will feed 
The place which did him breed. 
[C. XXVI. page 80.] 

15. English ' ape 1 the French: 
It is to us a pain 

This should be said and not gain-said again. 
[Berkshire : Proverbs.] 

16.-}* Royal Children : i As for the other child- 
ren of Eleanor viz. Henry, 

Alphonse, Blanche, dying in their infancy imme- 
diately after their baptism, it is enough to name 
them and to bestow this joynt epitaph upon them.' 

Cleansed at font we drew untainted breath 
Not yet made bad by life, made good by death 

[Ibid.] 



182 THE WORTHIES. 

17. Sir John Mason : 

He saw live princes which the scepter bore 
Of them was privy-councellor to four. [Ibid.] 

18. Ancient gentry : 

Of names which were in days of yore 
Few remain here of a great store. [Ibid.] 

19.f Richard Cox and Prince Edward: ' He 
was sent for to be instructor to Prince Edward, 
which, with good conscience, to his great credit, 
he discharged. Here reader forgive me in hazard- 
ing thy censure, in making and translating a 
distick upon them.' 

Praeceptor doctus, docilis magis an puer ille *? 
Hie puer docilis, prseceptor tu quoque doctus; 
Master more able, child of more docility ] 
Docile the child, master of great ability. 

[Buckinghamshire. ]. 

20. Dame Hester Temple : c I confess very 
many of her descendants dyed before her death : 
in which respect she was far surpassed by a Eoman 
matron, on whom the poet thus epitapheth it, in 
her own person : ' 



THE WOETHIES. 183 

Twenty nine births Callicrate I told 
And of both sexes saw none sent to grave 1 
I was an hundred and five winters old, 
Yet stay from staff my hand did never crave. 

[Buckinghameshire. ] 

21. Baskets: i Martial confesseth baskets to 
have been a British invention, though Eome after- 
wards laid claim thereunto.' 

I, foreign basket, first in Brittain known 
And now by Eome accounted for her own. 

[Cambridgeshire. ] 

22. Matthew Paris : 

Matthew, here cease thy pen in peace, and study 

on no more 
Nor do thou rome at things to come, what next 

age hath in store. [Ibid.~\ 

23. Simon Steward's 6 coat of arms :' 

French Charls would have these Coats to be thus 

worn ; 
When singly good, their better jointly born. 

[Ibid.] 

24. Beestone Castle : ' pictures' of — 

When real walls are vanish' d quite 
Painted ones doe us delight. 



184 THE WORTHIES. 

6 Learned Leland is very confident that this 
castle shall see better times, deriving his intelli- 
gence from ancient predictions :' 

Eeestone in time its head aloft shall heave 
If I, a prophet, prophets may believe. 

[Cambridgeshire. ] 

25.t Daniel King : ' on whom we will bestow 
this distick' 

Cheshire to King and King to Cheshire owes 
His light : each doth receive what each bestows. 

c What is amiss in my poetry, shall be amended 
in my prayers for a blessing on his and all 
ingenious men's undertakings.' [The Latin is] 

Kingus Cestrensi, Censtrensis Patria Kingo 
Lucem alternatim debet uterque suam. 

[Cheshire.] 

26. Dreams: [Virgil; Aeneid vi. 893] 

Dreames have two gates : one made [they say] 
of horn ; 
By this port pass, true and prophetic dreames : 
White ivory the other doth adorne ; 

By this false shades and lying fancies streames. 

[Cornwall.] 



THE WORTHIES. 185 

27. Tongilian : ' I cannot take my leave of 
these tinners, untill I have observ'd a strange prac- 
tice of them, that once in seven or eight years 
they burn down (and that to their great profit) 
their own melting houses.' 

' I remember a merry epigram in Martial on 
one Tongilian who had his house in Eome 
causually (reputed) burnt, and gained ten times 
as much, by his friends' contribution to his loss :' 

Gaining tenfold, tell truly, I desire 
Tongilian, did'st not set thy house on fire. 

[Cornish.] 

[See the explanation in the sequel of the text. G.] 

28. Cornish : 6 They ever have been be-held 
men of valour. It seemeth in the reign of the 
aforesaid king Arthur they ever made up his 
van-guard, if I can rightly understand the bar- 
barous verses of a Cornish poet :' 

Brave Arthur, when he meant a field to fight 
Us Cornish men did first of all invite: 
Only to Cornish (count them Caesar's swords) 
He the first blow in battle still affords. [Ibid.] 

29. Michael Blaimjxtyn: ( It happened one 
Henry of Normandy, chief poet to our Henry the 



186 THE WORTHIES. 

Third, had traduced Cornwall, as an inconsider- 
able country, cast out by nature in contempt into 
a corner of the Land. Our Michael could not 
endure this affront : but full of poeticall fury, 
falls upon the libeller. Take a taste (little 
thereof will go far) of his strains : 7 

We need not number up her wealthy store 
Wherewith this helpful land relieves her poor, 
No sea so full of fish, of tinn no shore. 

' Then as a valiant champion, he concludeth 
all with this exhortation to his countrymen :' 

What should us fright if firmly we do stand *? 
Bar fraud, then no force can us command. 

6 His pen so lushious in praising when so 
pleased, was as bitter in railing when disposed : 
witness this his satirical character of his aforesaid 
antagonist :' 

Gamb'd like a goat, sparow-thigh'd, sides as boar, 
Hare-mouth' d, dog-nos'd, like mule thy teeth 
and chin : 
Brow'd as old wife, bul-headed, black as more. 
If such without, then what are you within ? 
By these my signs the wise will easily conster 
How little thou didst differ from a monster. 

[Cornish.] 



THE WORTHIES. 187 

,30. Richard Carew and Sir Philip Sidney in 
' dispute extempore ' at College : 

Ask yon the end of this contest % 
They neither had the better ; "both the best. 

[Cornish.] 

31. Sympathy : 

When thy neighbour's house doth burn 
Take heed the next be not thy turn. 

[Cumberland.] 

32. John Salkeld ' presented to king James : 
by whose arguments (and a benefice bestowed on 
him in Somersetshire) he became a Protestant. 
This he used in all companies to boast of " that 
he was a royall convert." Nobisque dedit solatia 
victor.' 

And was it not a noble thing 

Thus to be conquer' d by a king. \Ibid.~\ 

[Not to be confounded with good John Salkeld 
'ejected' in 1662 from Worlington, Suffolk. 
See Calamy s. n. G.] 

33. Chatsworth : [from Hobbes' De Mirabi- 
libus Pecci]. 



188 THE WORTHIES. 

Chatsworth, which, in its bulk itself doth pride 
And lord (both great) stands Derwens bank 

beside ; 
Which slides still by the gate, as full of wonder 
Through loud with stones above the house and 

under. [Derbyshire.] 

34. 'Buxton Well: [Ibid.] 

Old men's numb'd joynts new vigor here acquire ; 
In frozen nerves this water kindleth fire. 
Hither the creples halt, some help to find, 
Run hence, their crutches unthank'tt left behind. 
The barren wife here meets her husband's love 
With such success she strait doth mother prove. 

[Ibid.] 

\ c The Translator durst not be so bold as the 
author.' 

35. Battle of Alcaser : 

A fatal fight, where in one day was slain 
Three kings that were and one that would be fain. 

[Ibid.] 

36 Sir Francis Drake : c This tetrastic made 
on his corpse when cast out of the ship, wherein 
he died, into the sea :' 
Though Eome's religion should in time return 

Drake, none thy body will ungrave again : 



THE WORTHIES. 189 

There is no fear posterity should "burn 

Those bones, which free from fire in sea remain. 

[Devonshire.] 

37. Samuel Word : ' Now because the pen of 
a pupil may probably be suspected of partiality, 
of an historian I will turn a translator and only 
endeavour to English that character which one 
[Dr Thomas Goad] who knew him as well as most 
men and could judge of him as well as any man 
doth bestow upon him.' 

Go to, go on, deck (as thou doest) the chaire 
With subtilty not light, slight, vage as air ; 
But such as Truth doth crown, and standing sure 
Solidly fix'd will weighing well endure. 
Antiquities' hid depths thou oft doest sound, 
And School-men's whirl-pools which are so pro- 
found. 
Distinction's threads none can so finely weave ; 
Or reason wrench, thy knowledge to deceive ; 
None thy quick sight, grave judgement, can beguile 
So skill' d in tongues, so sinewy in style : 
Add to all these that peaceful soul of thine 
Meek, modest, which all brawlings doth decline. 

[Durham.] 



190 THE WOKTHIES. 

38. Sir Henry Killigrew : i Now Katherine, 
his lady wrote these following verses to her sister 
Mildred Cecil, to improve her power with the 
Lord Treasurer her husband, that Sir Henry might 
be excused from that service [of ambassador to 
France]. We will endeavour to translate them, 
though I am afraid falling much short of their 
native elegance :' 

If Mildred, by thy care, he be sent back whom I 

request, 
A sister good thou art to me, yea better, yea, the 

best. 
But if with stays thou keep'st him still or send'st 

where seas may part, 
Then unto me a sister ill, yea worse, yea none 

thou art. 
If go to Cornwall he shall please, I peace to thee 

foretell ; 
But Cecil, if he set to seas, I war denounce. 

Farewell. [Essex.] 

39. t Thomas Barington and c Spouse 9 — ' See 
here a sympathizing wife, dying the next day 
after her husband, of whom it may be said' 

He first deceased : she for few hours try'd 
To live without him, lik'd it not, and dy'd. 

[Ibid.] 



THE WORTHIES. 191 

40. Higre and Adria [= Adriatic G.] — After 
quoting Drayton's description of the Higre, Fuller 
adds ' Had this been known to the Eoman poet 
[Horace] when he thus envied against his shee- 
friend' 

Thou art more light, more angry than 
The cork, and uncouth Adrian. 

'■ I say, had it heen known, he would have 
changed Adria into Higrea, the former being a 
very calme in comparison of the latter.' — [Glou- 
cestershire.] [I doubt good Fuller if thou 
speakest here from experience if I may judge 
from what the Adriatic has proved to me in sail- 
ing it over and over. G.] 

41. Tliomas de la More: 

A man whose fame extended far 
For arts in peace and feats in war. 

[Gloucestershire.] 

42. Charles Butler : author of a i Eook of 
Bees : ' 

Butler, he'l say (who these thy writing sees) 
Bees counsel thee or else thou counsel'st bees. 

[Hampshire.] 



192 THE WOETHIES. 

43. William, second son of King Edward the 
Third : 6 What I find written on the late monu- 
ment of a noble infant may also serve for his 
epitaph.' 

Living I could not speak, now dead I tel 
Thy duty : think of death : and so farewell. 

[Hertfordshire.] 

44. Alexander Nequam or Bad in English : 
' Many conceived themselves wondrous witty in 
making jests (which indeed made themselves) on 
his sirname. , .... 'Whereupon Nequam (to 
discompose such conceits for the future) altered 
the orthography of his name into ]STeckam. 

Another pass of wit there was betwixt 

him and Philip Bepington, bishop of Lincoln, 
the latter sending the challenge.' 

Et niger et nequam, cum sis cognomine Nequam; 
Nigrior esse potes, nequior esse nequis. 
Both black and bad, whilst Bad tie name to thee 
Blacker thou may'st but worse thou can'st not be. 

To whom Nequam rejoyned : 

Phi nota faetoris, lippus malus omnibus horis : 
Phi malus et lippus, totus malus ergo Philippus. 



THE WORTHIES. 193 

Stinks are branded with, a Phi, lippus Latin for 

blear-eye : 
Phi and lippus bad as either ; then Philippus 

worse together. 

This [is his] epitaph : 

Wisdom's eclips'd, sky of the sun bereft 
Yet less the loss if like alive were left. 
A man discreet, in manners debonair 
Bad name, black face, but carriage good and 
fair. [Ibid.] 

45.t William of Ware : i He was instructor 
to John Duns Scotus.' 

And if the scholar to such height did reach 
Then what was he who did this scholar teach % 

[Ibid.] 

46. Wye-salmon : 

Salmon in Summer is not rare 
In Winter I of them do share. 

for the river Wye affords brumal salmon, fat 
and sound, when they are sick and spent in other 
places.' [Herefordshire ] 

47. Adam de Easton : ' Pity it is so good a 
scholar should have so barbarous an epitaph, 
scarce worth our translation.' 



194 THE WORTHIES. 

Adam a famous father in arts all 
He was a deep divine, Cardi-and-nall, 
Whom England bred, St Cicelie hath given 
His title — death at last gave heaven. 

[Herefordshire.] 

48. William Sempster : 

Well I know these works he wrot 

But for the time I know it not. [Ibid.] 

49. Humphry Ely : 

Wonder not, reader, that with heresies 
England is clouded : here her Sun he lies 

[Ibid.] 

50. Rosamund : c buried in a little nunnery at 
Godstowe nigh Oxford, with this epitaph.' 

This tomb doth inclose, the world's fair rose, so 

sweet and full of savour 
And smell she doth now, but you may guess how, 

none of the sweetest savour. [Ibid.] 

[See sequel in context. G.] 

51. Sir Robert Cotton : 

Camden to him, to him doth Selden, owe 
Their glory : what they got from him did grow. 

[Huntingdonshire.] 



THE WORTHIES. 195 

52. Interpretation of a proverb : 

If thou know'st better, it to me impart 

If not, use these of mine with all my heart. 

[Kent.] 

53. Germans: 

'Mongst the old Teuch, lest one oretop his breed 
To his sire's land doth every son succeed. [Ibid.] 

54.t Edmund, youngest son to Henry the 
Seventh ■ died before he was full five years of age.' 
. . . ' Little notice generally is taken of this 
prince : and no wonder, for ' 

Who only act short parts in infant age 
Are soon forgot they ere came on the stage. 

[Ibid.] 

55. Sir James Hales : 

Seeing nought thou seest but faling in the best, 
Mind thy own matters and leave God the rest. 

[Ibid.] 

56. Richard Fletcher : c Queen Elizabeth knew 
full well' 

The jewel vertue is more grac'd 

When in a proper person cas'd. [Ibid.] 



196 THE WORTHIES. 

\ 

57. Sir Tlwmas Wyat : 

Let Florence fair her Dante's justly boast 

And royal Eome her Petrarch's numbered feet : 
In English Wiat both of them doth coast 
• In whom all graceful eloquence doth meet. 

[Kent.] 

58. New Kings : 

Subjects commonly do flnde 
New-made soveraigns most kinde. 

[Lancashire.] 

59. Wills: c Eichard Bancroft cancelled his 
first will.' . . 

He who never repented of doing ill 
Eepented that once he made a good Will. 

[Ihid] 

60. Worth: 

Nor will worth 
Long be confin'd but make its own way forth. 

[Ibid.] 

61. Fleet-hounds : 6 Such apetronius or fleet 
hound, is two hounds in effect. 

To the petronian, both the praise is due 
Quickly to find and nimbly to pursue. 

[Lincolnshire.] 



THE WORTHIES. 197 

62. Grey -hounds : ' Martial speaking of these 
greyhounds, thus expresseth himself : ' 

For's master, not himself, doth greyhound toil 
Whose teeth to thee return the unhurt spoyl.' 

[Lincolnshire.] 

63. Mastiffs: 

The British whelps no blemish know 
But that they are not whelp' d for show. 

(ibid.] 

64. Lost 6 commons :' ' Long since Virgil said 
the same in effect of the men of Mantua, when 
they lost their lands to the souldiers of Augus- 
tus.' 

See townsmen, what we by our jars are grown • 
And see for whom we have our tillage sown. 

[IUd.] 

65. Ayscough, bishop of Saram : murdered 
by Jack Cade : — 

By people's fury mitre thus cast down 
We pray henceforward, God preserve the crown. 

[Ibid.] 

66. Thomas Goodrich : ' It will [not] be 
amisse to insert and translate this distick made 
upon him : ' 



198 THE WORTHIES. 

Both good and rich, well joyned, best rank'd 

indeed : 
For grace goes first and next doth wealth succeed. 

[Lincolnshire.] 

67. Hampton Court : [It] i hath happiness 
to continue in its former estate.' 

I envy not its happy lot, but rather thereat 

wonder ; 
There's such a rout, our Land throughout, of 

pallaces by plunder. [Middlesex.] 

68. FuTke de Brent and his i ivife .•' 

Now both of them be'ng brought into a bed 
By law and love and concord joyned are ; 
What law 1 what love 1 what concord did them 
wed? 
Law lawless, loath' d love, concord which did 
jarr. [Ibid.~\ 

69. -J- Katherine, 3d daughter of King Henry 
the Hid : ' She died in her very infancy, on 
whom we will presume to bestow this epitaph :' 

Wak't from the wombe, she on this world did 

peep 
Dislikt it, clos'd her eyes, fell fast asleep. 

[London.] 



THE WORTHIES. 199 

70.t Wives of Henry VIII : c Such as desire 
to know the names, number and successe of all 
six, may conceive King Henry thus speaking on 
his death-bed : ' 

Three Kates, two JSTans, and one dear Jane I 
wedded ; 
One Spanish, one Dutch, and four English 
wives : 
From two I was divorc'd, two I beheaded, 
One died in child-bed, and one me survives. 

[London.] 

71. William Cotton, D.D. : l epitaph/ 

When th' queen from Paul to Peter did 

remove, 
Him God with Paul and Peter plac'd above. 

[Ibid.] 

72. Spenser : ' epitaph : ' 

Whilst thou did'st live, liv'd English poetry 
Which fears, now thou art dead, that she 
shall die. [Ibid.] 

73. London: 

Potent in piety, in her people proud. 

[Ibid.] 



200 THE WORTHIES. 

74. Charles II : c a tetastric by Master 
Booth/ 

Prince Charles, forgive me, that my silent 
quill 
Joy'd not thy birth ; alas ! sore sick was I. 
New hopes now come ; had I been silent still 
I should deserve both to be sick and die. 

[Westminster.] 

75. Bishop Aylmer : 

Eighteen years bishop and once banish' d 

hence 
And twice a champion in the truth's defence. 

[Norfolk.] 

76. 'An end 1 : 'Virgil, I remember put a 
period to his Eclogue with ' 

' We'll versifie no more 
Eor do but hark, Hylax doth bark at th' 

entrance of the dore.' [Ibid.] 

77. William Lilly: ' This I will do for 
William Lilly (though often beaten for his sake) 
endeavour to translate his answer [to Skelton. 
G.] 



THE WORTHIES. 201 

With face so bold and teeth so sharp 
Of viper's venome, why dost carp 1 
Why are my verses by thee weigh'd 
In a false scale ] May truth be said 1 
Whilst thou, to get the more esteem 
A learned poet fain wouldst seem : 
Skelton, thou art, let all men know it, 
Neither learned nor a poet. [Norfolk]. 

78. Sir Robert Dcdlington : 'He was knighted 
and preferred master of the Charter-house, where 
the schoolmaster at his first entering, welcomed 
him with a speech in Latine verse, spoken by a 
schoolboy • but sure he was more then a boy who 
indited it.' . . . ' the last distick therein ' — 

Do not the least part of your trust disdain 
Nor grudge of boys to take the care again. 

[Northamptonshire. ] 

79. John Fletcher : ' It could [not] be laid 
Fletcher's charge, what Ajax doth to Ulysses' 

[Ovid: Met. lib. 13]. 

When Diomede was gone 
He could do nought alone. 

?or surviving his partner [Beaumont] he wrote 
^ood comedies himself.' [Ibid.] 



202 THE WOKTHIES. 

80. Peter Pateshull : would have teen burned 
save for his flight. ' This mindeth me of a pas- 
sage of a frier who burned a book of Peter 
Ramus, after the death of the author thereof \ 
and then and there used this distick in some 
imitation of Oyid. 

Small book, thy fate I envy not, 
(Without me) feel the flame ; 

Oh had it been thy master's lot 

He might have felt the same. [Ibid.] 

81. Laxton : 

At Oundle born, what he did get- 
In London with great pain, 

Laxton to young and old hath set 
A comfort to remain. [Ibid.'] 

82. Friars: 

Hear, why that they so much in England 

thriv'd : 
When th' English earst in Palestine arriv'd, 
The city Aeon on the shore of Tyre 
As next at hand, with arms did soon acquire 

The captives, seeing so great wonders wrought, 
There friers with them into England brought : 
What was denied at home, they here anew 



THE WORTHIES. 203 

Church.es and houses built. In years hut few 
Increasing twig-like set by happy hand 
Or tree transplanted to a fruitful land. 

[Northumberland. ] 

83. Thomas Magnus : l He was an exposed 
child' — 'What the poet saith of the father of 
Cadmus (commanding his son to find his lost 
sister Europa or else never to return) that he was 

Expressing in one act a mind 

Which was both cruel and was kind . 

' Now it happened that some Yorkshire 
clothiers coming in the dark (very early or late) 
did light on this child, and resolved to pay both 
for his nursing and education, the charge whereof 
would not be great, equally divided betwixt them, 
according to the proverb Multorum manibus 
grande levatur onus? 

An heavy work is light to do 
When many hands are put thereto. 

[Nottinghamshire. ] 

84. Venison 

Old wine did their thirst allay, fat venison 
hunger. [Oxfordshire.] 



204 THE WORTHIES. 



85. Quarrels . 



Mark the Chronicles aright 

When Oxford scholars fall to fight, 

Before many months expir d 

England will with war be fir'd. [Oxfordshire]. 

86. t ' Wife of Peter Martyr : ' It happened 
in the first of queen Elizabeth that the scholars 
of Oxford took up the body of the wife of Peter 
Martyr, who formerly had been disgracefully 
buried in a dunghill, and interred it in the tomb 
with the dust of St Erideswide. Sanders addeth, 
that they wrote this inscription (which he calleth 
impium epitaphium) : Hie requiescit Religio cum 
Superstitione : though the words being capable of 
a favourable sense on his side, he need not have 
been so angry. However we will rub up our old 
poetry and bestow another upon them.' 

In tumulo fuerat Petri quae Martyris uxor, 

Hie cum Eridesw T ida virgine jure jacet 
Yirginis intactae nihilum cum cedat honori, 

Conjugis in thalamo non temerata fides. 
Si sacer Angligeniss cultus mutetur (at absit !) 
Ossa suum servent mutua tuta locum. 
Intomb'd with Erideswide, deem'd a sainted maid 
The wife of Peter Martyr here is laid : 



THE WORTHIES. 205 

And reason good, for women chaste in mind 
The hest of virgins come no whit behind. 
Should Popery return (which God forefend !) 
Their blended dust each other would defend. 

[Oxfordshire.] 

87. War: 

Mars, Mars, bane of men, slaughter-stain' d spoiler 
of houses. [Eutlandshire.] 

88. Sword: 

Sword which god Vulcan did for Daunus fixe 
And quenched it when firy hot in Stix. 

[Shropshire.] 

89. Ralph of Shrewsbury : builder of a house 
for the i vicars-choral' of his cathedral : w^hich in 
an old picture is thus presented : 

The Vicars' humble petition on their knees. 
To us dispers'd i th' streets good father give 

A place where we together all may live. 
The gracious answer of the Bishop, sitting. 

Your merits crave that what you crave be yielded ] 
That so ye may remain, this place we've builded. 

[Ibid.] 

90. \ William Adams : a great Benefactor. < But 
who for the present can hold from praising so 
pious a performance V 



206 THE WORTHIES. 

Come, Momus, who delight do'st take 

Where none are found, there faults to make : 

And count' st that cost and care and pain 

Not spent on thee, all spent in vain. 

See this bright structure, till that smart 

Blind thy "blear-eyes and grieve thy heart. 

Some cottage-schools are built so low 

The Muses there must groveling go. 

Here, whilst Apollo's harp doth sound, 

The sisters nine may dance around ; 

And architects may take from hence 

The pattern of magnificence. 

Then grieve not, Adams, in thy mind, 

'Cause you have left no child behind : 

Unbred ! unborn, is better rather, 

If so, you are a second father 

To all bred in this school so fair 

And each of them thy son and heir. [Shropshire. ] 

91. William Grocine: on a l pleasant maid . . . 
in a love-frolic' pelting him with a snow-ball — 

A snow-ball white at me did Julia throw ; 
Who would suppose it] fire was in that snow. 
Julia alone can quench my hot desire 
But not with snow or ice, but equal fire 

[Bristol.] 

92. Staffordshire : ' This county hath much 






THE WOKTHIES. 207 

beauty in the very solitude thereof : witness Beau- 
Desert or the Fair Wildernesse, being the beautiful 
barony of the Lord Paget :' 

And if their deserts here so rare devises 
Pray then, how pleasant are their paradises. 

[Staffordshire.] 

93. From Virgil: 

Prom Troy may the isle of Tenedos be spide 
Much fam'd when Priam's kingdom was in pride, 
Now but a bay where ships in danger ride 

[Ibid.] 

94. t Cathedral-churches : 

And of the servants we so much commend 
What was the mistress whom they did attend % 

[Suffolk.] 

95. Bury: 

Though furious fire the old town did consume 
Stand this till all the world shall flaming fume 

[Ibid.] 

96. St Edmund : 

As Denis by his death adorneth Prance : 
Demetrius Greece : each credit to his place : 

So Edmund's lustre doth our Land advance, 
Who with his vertues doth his country grace. 



208 THE WORTHIES. 

Sceptre, crown, robe, his hand, head, corps 
renouns 
More famous for his bonds, his bloud, his 
wounds. [Suffolk.] 

97. Stejohen Gardiner : i He is reported to have 
died more than half a Protestant .... which 
if so, then did he verifie the Greek and Latin 
proverb/ 

The Gardiner oft-times in due season 
Spake what is true and solid reason. [Ibid.] 

98. Lydgate's ' epitaph :' 

Dead in this world, living above the skye 
Intombed within this urn doth Lydgate lie 
In former time fam'd for his poetry. 

All over England. [Ibid.] 

99. Samuel Ward : ' epitaph.' 

Grant some of knowledge greater store 
More learned some in teaching ; 

Yet few in life did lighten more 
None thundred more in preaching. 

One of his sons, lately dead, was beneficed in 
Essex : and following the counsel of the poet 



THE WORTHIES. 209 

What doth forbid but we may smile 
And also tell the truth the while ] 

hath in a jesting way in some of his books, de- 
livered much smart truth of the present times. 

[Suffolk.] 

100. Sir Wm. Cordal : ' epitaph.' 

Here William Cordal doth in rest remain 
Great by his birth, but greater by his brain. 
Plying his studies hard, his youth throughout 
Of causes he became a pleader stout. 
His learning deep such eloquence did vent, 
He was chose speaker of the Parliament. 
Afterwards knight queen Mary did him make 
And counsellor, State-work to undertake : 
And Master of the Polls. Well worn with age 
Dying in Christ, heaven was his utmost stage. 
Diet and clothes to poor he gave at large 
And a fair Almshouse founded on his charge. 

[Ibid.] 

101. Parhhurst to Jeivel : 

Dear Jewel, scholar once thou wast to me 
Now 'gainst thy will I scholar turn to thee. 

[Surrey.] 



210 THE WORTHIES. 

102. William Ochham a ' contradicting spirit.' 

But now he's dead, as plainly doth appear 
Yet would denie it, were he living 1 here. 

[Surrey.] 

103. Epigram: 

Neither with thee can I well 

Nor without thee, can I dwell. [Ibid.] 

104. Dr Barlow : 

Barlow's wife, Agathe, doth here remain 
Bishop, then exile, bishop then again. 
So long she lived, so well his children sped 
She saw five bishops her five daughters wed. 

[Sussex.] 

105. Sir TJwmas Shirley: 

Virtue and labour, learn from me thy father 
As for success, child, learn from others rather. 

[Ibid.] 

106. Heraldry-rhyme: 

The Bear he never can prevail 
To Lion it for lack of tail. 

[Warwickshire. ] 

107. Baucis and Philemon: applied to Mr 
and Mrs Underhill : 

But good old Baucis with Philemon, match'd 
In youthfull years, now struck with equal age, 

1 And why not if ' living ? ' G. 



THE WORTHIES. 211 

Made poorness pleasant in their cottage thatch' d 
And weight of want with patience did asswage. 

[Warwickshire. ] 






Because we liv'd and lov'd so long together 
Let's not behold the funerals of either ; 

May one hour end us both ! may I not see 
This : my wife burried nor wife bury me : 

[Ibid.] 

108 Patrons: 

Let not Maecenasses be scant 
And Maroes we shall never want 
For, Flaccus, then thy country-field 
Shall unto thee a Virgil yield. \Ibid.~\ 

109. Custom: 

Beat Nature back, 'tis all in vain 
With tines of fork 'twill come again. 

[Westmoreland. ] 

110. Queen Jane Seymour: who died in child- 
bed. 

Soon as her Phoenix bud was blown 
Boot-Phoenix Jane did wither: 

Sad, that no age a brace had shown 

Of Phoenixes together. [Wiltshire.] 



212 THE WORTHIES. 



111. Bonner: 



If one by shedding blood for bliss may hope 

Heaven's widest gate for Bonner doth, stand op'e 

[Nemo] Nobody speaking to Bonner. 

All call thee cruell and the spunge of blood : 

But Bonner, I say, thou art mild and good. 

[Worcestershire.] 
112. Geat: 

Geat, a stone and kind of gemm 
In Lycia grows : but best of them 
Most fruitfull Britain sends ; 'tis bright 
And black and smooth and very light. 
If rubb'd to heat, it easily draws 
Unto itself both chaffe and straws. 
Water makes it fiercely flame 
Oyle doth quickly quench the same. 

[Yorkshire.] 

113. Daphne: 

Into a bough her hair did spread 
And from her armes two branches bred. 

[Ibid.] 

114. Eustathius de Fauconbridge: 

All here are worthy, thou the worthiest ; 
All fully wise, thou wiser than the rest. 

[Ibid.] 



THE WORTHIES. 213 

115.t Thomas Johnson: i Let us bestow this 
epitaph upon him ' 

Hie, Johnsone, jaces; sed, si mors cederet herhis. 

Arte fugata tua, cederet ilia tuis. 
Here Johnson lies : could physick fence Death's 
dart 
Sure Death had bin declined by his art. 

[Yorkshire.] 

116. Robert the Scribe : l True of him.' 

The tongue her task hath not yet done 
When that the hand her race hath run. 

[Ibid.] 

117. Rhyme: 

All lands do not bring 

Nor all waters, every thing. [Ibid.] 

118. Cathedral of York : 

Of flowers that grow the flower's the rose ; 
All houses so, this house out-goes. [Ibid.] 

119. AlbaneHill: 

The shoar resounded still 

Nothing but Hill and Hill. [Wales.] 



214 THE WORTHIES. 

120. Rhymes: 

Verses justly do request 
Their writer's privacy and rest. 



And 



'Twas hard for any then to write 

And not a satyre to indite. [Wales.] 



121. William Breton: 

Hard places which the Bible doth contain 

I study to expound ; but all in vain 

Without God's help, who darkness doth explain 

And with his help nothing doth hard remain, etc. 

122. Wonders: 

Wonders here by me are told 
To many men well known ; 

But till my eyes shall them behold 
Their truth I'll never own. 

[Anglesea.] 

123. Richard Vaughan: 

Prelate of London (0 immortal grace 

Of thine own Britons) first who had that place. 

He's good, who what men ought to do, doth 

teach ; 
He's better, who doth do what men should preach. 
You best of all, preaching what men should do 
And what men ought to preach that doing too. 

[Carnarvon.] 



EPITAPH OF DENYS ROLLE. 215 

XV. Epitaph to the Memory of Denys Eolle 
Esq. in Bicton Church, Devonshire. 1 

The Eemaines of 

Denys Eolle 

Esqvire. 

His earthly part within this tomb doth rest 
Who kept a covrt of honovr in his breast : 
Birth, beavtie, witt and wisedom sat as peeres 
Till Death mistooke his virtves for his yeares. 
Or else Heaven envy'd Earth so rich a treasvre : 
Wherein too fine the ware, too scant the measvre : 
His movrnfvll wife her love to shew in part 
This tomb bvilt here : a better in her heart 
Sweete babe, his hopefvll heyre (Heaven grant 

this boon) 
Live bvt so well bvt oh dye not so soone. 

(Anno D'ne 1638 
Obijt. 



Cvm 

Eeliqvit fili •) 

(^as i 



(Aetatis 24. 
vnum 
qvinqvae. 



1 See ' Danmonii Orientales Illustres or the Worthies of 
Devon etc. etc. By John Prince, Vicar of Berry-Pomeroy 
in the same Country, 1697 folio : p. 551. Of also Fuller's 
'Worthies' (Devon) — In the former we read 'He [Dennis, 
Eolle Esq.] was buried in the parish church of Bickton 
aforesaid, about the 12th or 11th day of June A.D. 1638. 
In the which by the piety of his dearest lady was a noble 



216 ANDEONICUS. 

16. c Andronicus.' [G. 4 verso-ed 1646.] 2 

' And now, let him alone to prevent their pro- 
ceedings, by cutting both them and theirs off 
(that no mindfull heire might succeed to their 
spite) and that with all possible speed ; for hee 
steer' d his actions, by the compas of that char- 
acter, which one made of him, as followeth. 

/ love at leasure, favours to bestow ; 
And tickle men by dropping kindnesse slow, 
But my revenge, I in one instant spend, 
That moment which begins 2 it, doth it end. 

Half doing undoes many, His a sinne 

Not to be soundly sinfull ; to begin, 

And tire; Vie do the work. They strike in vain, 

Who strike so, that the stricken might complain. 

monument, erected to his and her memory, of white marble, 
where are seen lying at length his and her effigies lively and 
curiously cut in alabaster, under a rich arch, adorned with 
several coats of arms relating to the family. On a table of 
black marble is found this inscription in letters of gold, made 
by Dr Fuller.' The Kolle name continued and abides il- 
lustrious to the present generation. G. 

1 This I include among Fuller's, in deference to the sugges- 
tion of Mr Wright, as before. Some others similarly intro- 
duced, I cannot recognise as his. G. 
i in the original. G. 



XVI. FIFTY-NINE 
HITHEBTO UNPUBLISHED EPIGEAMS. 



NOTE. 

As stated in our Introduction, Mr W. Carew Hazlitt sent a 
communication to Notes and Queries (3d Series, VII. pp. 
352, 353) concerning a volume then in his possession, which 
contained contemporary MS. insertions. The 'Note 'is as 
follows : — ' In a copy of Crashaw's Steps to the Temple, with 
the Delights of the Muses, second edition 1648 8vo [it is a 
small 12°. G.] which fell in my way about three years ago, 
I discovered written upon the blank leaves, — as a portion of 
the copy was printed on one side only, — a large quantity 
of curious Manuscript matter, consisting partly of excerpta 
from printed works, but partly of original and inedited com- 
positions. Among these, are upwards of fifty epigrams, 
chief y upon religious subjects, by "Mr Thomas Fuller," 
and I forward herewith some account of the collection, 
which, as I have little or no doubt that " Mr Thomas 
Fuller " is identical with the Church-historian, cannot fail 
to be of interest to some of your readers.' [Here follows a 
selection of the headings of 42 of the Epigrams, and Mr 
Hazlitt adds, ' with about a dozen more : ' which is within 
the mark. G.] 'In a different hand from the above are 
other epigrams, among which are several of an amatory 
cast. At the close of the volume occurs, with considerable 
appearance of having been written by the same person who 
has composed or transcribed the other pieces, the autograph 
of Dudley Lovelace, who has written his name a second 
time with an eye to a little yew de mots, thus : Dudley Love- 
lasse, and this gentleman has apparently (for they are in 
the same hand or a very similar one) copied out portions of 
his brother's Lucasta upon some of the spare leaves, with 
here and there a variation from the printed edition. On 
the recto of p. 96 there are four verses from Lucasta with 
the signature of Richard Lovelace. The true history of the 
little book before me, might be curious and interesting, if it 



220 NOTE. 

could be ascertained. There is surely ground for presum- 
ing that it has once been possessed by Dudley Posthumous 
Lovelace, the youngest brother of the ill-fated Cavalier 
Poet, Eichard Lovelace, if not of the latter himself. I re- 
ferred to the curiosity of the present copy of Orashaw in a 
note at p. 42, of my edition of the Poems of Eichard Love- 
lace, 1864. W. Carew Hazlitt.' 

In examining the volume I find on back of the engraved 
title-page and continued through other two pages, certain 
memoranda headed ' An Asylum for extremity,' and closed 
thus on reverse of ' the Table ' (= Contents) 
4 finis of ye Asylum for 

Laborious ) , 

> extremity T. J. S.' 

This portion is partly in short-hand characters, and differs, I 
think, from the Epigram hand- writing. Who was T. J. S. 
— if I correctly read the initials? Lovelace himself has 
a poem to Lady A[nne] L[ovelace] 'My asylum in a 
great extremity,' of which, above words seem an echo. 
Again: on the blanks from p, 75 to p. 77, there are 18 
numbered ' Epigrams ' which would seem to belong to 
Crashaw, though not assigned to him. Fuller's ' Epigrams * 
fill the blanks from p. 78 to 84. I adhere with literal 
fidelity to the manuscript — placing in brackets my filling 
up of less plain contractions — and I have to acknowledge 
the admirable help and rare insight of W. Aldis Wright, 
Esq., M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, in deciphering 
the somewhat intricate and difficult hand-writing and 
meaning. The figures 1, 2, etc., point to a few slight 
explanatory Notes appended. Under Epigrams 10, 40, 
53 are references to ' Pisgah-Sight ' which confirm their 
Fullerian authority. These might be multiplied. But 
specially note Epigram 33 : and as bearing the true mint- 
mark Nos. 2, 4, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 27,31, 
34, 35, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 54, 55, 58, 59. G. 



XVI. "EPIGRAMS BY THO : FULLER" 

1. On Adam. 1 

When modest — sinful, w[he]n cloath'[d] — nak'd 
in minde, 
W? knoweinge — ignorant : w? seeinge — 
blinde (1). 

2. On Noah. A ridle. 

No : wares he caried w[hi]ch he m[ean]t to sel 
Of pirats ferrelesse : for no harbor bound 

All winde tho turninge served his turn as wel 
He only wisht for to be run on ground. (2). 

3. On Leah : 

Too tender were her eeys ; if God so please 
Would al mens harts were sicke of her 
disease. (3). 



1 Cf. the quotation from ' Hainous Sinne ' etc. in our Intro- 
duction page 13 [III. st. 6], almost identical. G. 



222 UNPUBLISHED EPIGEAMS. 

4. On Joseph & his M.™ (4). 

He might have been oe'rcome by makeinge stay 
Who overcame by runninge quite away 

When Josep[h] to his m^ would not yeild 
Sure then he overcame in Loosecoat 1 field. 

5. On Ziporah circum : her sons. (5). 

Sheddinge her sons blood sav'd her husband's life. 

But then her tongue cuts sharper then a knife : 
With her sons fore-skine so she thought to fit him 

Thrown at his feet she in y e teeth did hit him. 

6. On Moses Smiteinge y e Eocke. (6). 

He formerly complain'd, my tongue's too slowe 
But surely then his tongue to[o] fast did goe. 

7. On the Batle with Amelacke. (7). 

The wind i' th' victory, where did it stand p] 
Looke on y e weather co eke on Moses' hand : 

His hand's no weathercocke I cal to minde 
Yt's turned about, but this doth turny 6 winde. 

1 A place near Stamford w[h]ere a Batle in Edw : 4 time 
[The preceding note is in the Manuscript. Mr Wright as 
before, has been good enough to send me the following 
' Loosecoat-jield is mentioned by Speed as the scene of a 
battle fought near Stamford in the reign of Edward the 
Fourth — so called because the defeated party in the hurry 
of their flight threw away their coats — Speed, History of 
Great Britain p. 680 edi. 1611.' G.] 



UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 223 

8. On Joshauah. (8). 

Weake faith y* one days station doth comand 
Brave Keplar (9) make y e sun for ever stand. 

9. On y e Alter Ed. (10). 

This Alter they did piously Intend 

Pray God none ere be bu[i]lt to worser end. 

10. Sampson's Jawe bone. (11). 

Water x from Horse-hoofe : 2 'tis a fable thinge 
'Tis now an Asses Jawe did yei[l]d a Springe. 2 

11. On Ephraimites fals pronnnc : Shiboleth (12). 

They wanted H in their pronnunciation 
Sure H : was then a heavy aspiration : 

Schin was their theta & much blood it spils 
To them y 6 word was true, y e letter kils. 

12. On Elijah taken vp into heaven (13). 

He'es Israel's chariot : who y e like espi'de 
To see a chariot in a chariot ride. 



1 Helicon. F. 2 Pegasus. F. 

3 In ' Pisgah-Sight ' p. 229, we read ' 'tis true an Asses 
Jawe did yei[l]d a Springe ' p. 229. ed. 1650. G. 



224 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 

13. On Zacheus (14). 

Hee climb' d A fig-tree : this I dare ad more (15) 
No barren fig- tree then : good frute it bore 

14. On y e Powder plot (16). 

The plot was onely in Intention wronght 
Y e plotters were to execution brought. 

15. On Yaine Excuses. 

When men do sin themselves they blame y® divel 
Y e divel doth their sin : they do y e evil. 

16. On Gallants cloakes. 

Without plaine cloath, within plush : but I doubt 
Y e wearer's worst within & best without. 

17, On Popish Interpretation of Scripture. 

Christ : Drinke al of this at y e comunion table 
Pope : By al, y e clergy, their are only meant 
Paul : Mariage Amongst al men 's honorable 
Pope : All, there's y e Laity y ts paul's intent. 
Christ : Is't so indeed : w* X[t], saith or St Paul 
yts nothinge : w* y e pope saith, all in all. 

18. On Sin. 

We paint y e divel blacke : us to requite 
The blackamore's do paint y e divel white : 



UNPUBLISHED EPIGEAMS. 225 

Thus juglers count spendinge y e only (17) 
vice 

And spenders make it to be avarice 
And every man whereof himselfe is free 

Y* he conceives y e only sin to be. 

19. Whether Scripture or tradition [is] y e 
mother of faith. 

Scr. Y e child is mine, of certaine S 1 ! I 
bare it 
Trad : S* , it's mine & I must therefore 
share it : 
Solomon: Y* then this matter better be decided 
Bringe forth a sword & let it be 
divided (18). 
Trad : wel s? S? y e Judgm* is wel spent 

Let it be hers & mine Indifferent. 
Scrip : O no not so, alive for pity save it 

Let me have't al or let her wholy 
have it. 
Solomon : now I see this woman is y e 
mother 
Give her y e . child and pack away y e 
other. 

20. On Pope Innocent. 
Pope Innocent cheife of y e Eoman Eout 

Answers his name : but how if In : were out. 

p 



226 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 

21. On Corn hoarders. 1 

Why do'st y? (19) hoard up corn for mice w n 
faine 
Y e people would it buy : oh knave in graine. 

22. On Joseph's M™ (20). 

Bee : chast-minded Joseph did deny 

To ly with her, she wretch on him did ly. 

23. On Jacob (21). 

Cheape rate he gave & always thinkes to gett 
For birthright, pottage : fore y e bless? 
meat. 

24. On Paul's Jorney to Damascus (22). 

Blest blindnes w° h did ope his ghostly eyes 
And fal y*. made him into heaven rise. 

25. On y e Philistins (23). 

Sampson's firebranded foxes vext them sore 
Our Pox (24) his firebrand vext y e papists 
more. 



duller would have agreed with like-minded Dr "William 
Smith in his memorable ' Blacksmith ' sermon, wherein he 
paraphrases St Basil 'in one of those sermons that he 
wrought against the covetous cormorants or corn-morants 
of his time ' [< The Blacksmith ' 1606.] G. 



UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 227 

26. On Michal's mockeinge (25). 

W[ha]t Issue came there of a deed so bad 
Alas ! no issue : child she never had. 

27. On Peter's words < shal I smite?' (26). 

He gave no eare to hear w[ha]t Christ would 
say 
But presently tooke Malchus' eare away. 

28. On Bugbears. 

Scare not thy children w[it]h false and foolish 
fears 
But rather tel them of Elisha's beares (27). 

29. On Sampson. 

Porter, who Gaza's (28) gates op'd without 
stay 
Porter who on his backe bore gates away. 

30. On Manasse (29). 

W[he]n far from home this Cap[ti]f longe was 
sent 
Home came he to himselfe & did repent. 

31. On Jacob (30). 

W[he]n to his thigh y e Lord a touch did send 
Jacob did halt before his dearest frend. 



228 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 

32. On Nosh's clove (31). 

The newes she brought by mouth, tho nothing spake 
Whose nothinge answer did in folio make. 

33. A prayer. 

My soul is stained w[i]th a dusky colour 

Let thy Sonne be y e sope Tie be y e Fuller (32). 

34. On Peter's Sinkeinge (33). 

Cephas : w[ha]ts y*. (?) a stone : yea so I thinke 
A heavey stone : for it began to sinke. 

35. On his Successors. 

If in y e sea y e popes durst him succeed 

Where he was duckt, they would be drown'd 
indeed. 

36. On pride in cloaths. 

Eagles have none but peacockes have brave traine 
Subjects goe fine in cloaths, y e kinge goes plaine. 

37. On Zacheus. 

So I be good I care not to be tall 

I'de rather be Zacheus then A Saul (34). 

38. On Musculus (35). 

This preacher turn'd A weaver forc't by need 
How many weavers preachers do proceed. 



UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 229 

39. One more knave then foole. 

Nabal's a foole : read backeward & you have 
His nature truly, Laban, yts a knave (36). 

40. On David's three Worthy's (37). 

Wast not stronge water w[hic]h 3 men so mighty 
Ventur'd their lives for : yes, 'twas Aqua 
vitse. x 

41. On Sampson (38). 

Where lay y e strength of Sampson 1 even there 
Where Gallants pride now lys : in their longe 
hair. 

42. A prayer. 

Hard is my heart, Lord, to my greife I feele 
Be yV y e Loadstone, it shal be y e Steele. 

43. On y e Men of Sodom (39). 

Most bad is in A Lottery : good but one 

And y e good lot God drewe from thence alone. 

1 Cf . * Pisgah-Sight ' as before p. 299 on Aqua Vitro. This 
peculiar wording is also found in the 'Divine Poems' of 
Thomas Washbourne D.D. (1654), e.g. of penitent tears. 

' That Aqua vitas Thou dost prize (page 14). 

And at page 41 — 

• ' Th' Aqua vitas which from Christ's side came.' G. 



230 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 

44. On Naboth accused (40.) 

W[ha]t ground of such false crimes in hi[m] was 
found 
Alas, his vineyeard y* was All y e ground. 

45. On Jacob. 

Stout souldier 1 who's yet 2 vnborn did fight (41). 
Great conqueror who queld y e lord of might. 

46. On Ehud (42). 

Who so wel set himselfe to understand 

May see God's finger plaine in Ehud's hand. 

47. On y e Israelites in y e Wildernes. 

Their sutes did hold til 40 yeares were past (43) 
Sure in our lawe some Sutes as longe do 
last. 

48. On Perseverance. 

Joash relaps'd, Manasse did Amend 

Begin with Joash, with Manasse end (44). 

49. On James & John wishinge fire on y e 
Samaritans (45). 

The sons of thunder was enough for you 
You need not to be sons of Lightning too. 

1 A trisyllable. G. 2 Who as yet. G. 



UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 231 

50. On Paul's danger (46). 

Shipwracke escap't, no sooner come to land 
But straight another danger is at hand : 

Him men a murderer count, a wondrous thing 
To bite him whom y 6 serpent would not 
sting. 

51. On Jael (47). 

When Sisera sure as A naile was dead 
Then Jael truly hit y e naile o'th' head : 
He never dream' t of her, she boldly say (48) 
But yet she tooke hi[m] napking [napping] as he 
lay. 

52. On Hezekiah (49). 

The sun In goeinge backe w[ha]t did it showe 
Y* Hezekiah's life should forward goe 
A fig to hi[m] restor'd his life Againe : 
How many popes have since by figs been slaine 

53. On Jehosophat (50). 

W[he]n he with wicked Ahab tooke A part 
He sd to hi[m] I'me never x as y u art 
But w[it]h y e Aramites wel match't was he 
Who timely tooke hi[m] Ahab for to me. 

1 Query — a mistake for ' I'm ever' or I'm even. See 
1 Kings xxii 4 ; ' Pisgah-Sight' as before, p. 83. G. 



232 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 

54. On Isaace (51). 

Whilst patient Isaace, at y e Alter lyes 
Y e Lord himself e Alter' d y e Sacrifice : 
A willinge minde of God is not despis'd 
Isaacke was offer' d but not sacryfic'd. 

55. On Sampson's weapons (52). 

The silliest creature we do count y e Asse 
Y e fox doth always for y e wisest passe : 
With Asse's Jawes Sampson his foes doth quaile 
& flaps he gave them w[it]h a foxes taile. 

56. On Japthaes daughter (53). 

He kil'd her not say some but only stay'd 
Her fro[m] ill marryinge : oh y* kills a maide. 

57. On Ely y e priest (54). 

The newes of th' Ark's captivity once spoken 
His hart was broke before his necke was broken 
No wonder Ely was so tender harted 
Y e priest must needs dy w[he]n y e Ark's 
dep'[ar]ted. 

58. On Sampson & John Baptist (55). 

Much do I muse w[he]n I on Sampson thinke 
So stronge, whose mother tasted no stronge drink 
But yet John Baptist is A wonder rather 
A cryer's voice, begot of A dumb father. 



UNPUBLISHED EPIGKAMS. 233 

59, On Christ Lookinge on Peter (56). 

Tho Peter w[it]h his tongue did Christ deny 
Yet Christ, he owned Peter with his eye : 
Peter who was with night of feares ore-drawn 
But w[he]n y e Cocke did crowe y e day did dawn. 

NOTES. 

1. Adam : Cf . Genesis c. iii. w. 7, 8. 

2. Noah : Cf. Genesis c. vii. 

3. Leah : Of. Genesis c. xxix. 17. 

4. Joseph : Cf. Genesis c. xxxix. 

5. Zipporah : Cf. Exodus c. iv. 24-26. 

6. Moses : Cf. Exodus c. iv. 10, with Numbers c. xx. 10 

and Ps. cvi. 33. 

7. Amelacke : Cf. Exodus c. xvii. 8-16. 

8. Joshua: Spelled as ante, though I am not sure that the 

first '«' was not intended to be blotted out. In the 
MS. it is blackened. Cf. Joshua c. x. 12. y* = that. 

9. Keplar : The great astronomer 'Kepler' who so advanced 

astronomical discovery. Query — make = for makes 
or made ? 

10. Ed : Cf. Joshua xxii. 34. 

11. Sampson : Cf. Jugdes c. xv. 16. 

12. Shiboleth: Cf. Judges c. xii. 6. 

13. Elijah : Cf. 2 Kings c. ii. 12. 

14. Zacheus : = Zacchseus : Luke c. xix. 1-10. 

15. Ad more = admire, with a play on the words l addmore. 

16. Powder-Plot : so long celebrated in ' oth November ' 

anniversary Sermons and Prayers. 

17. ' Greatest,' is here written above the line. 

18. 'Divided:' Cf. 1 Kings c. iii. 25 seqq. 

19. ' Y? ' = the Latin ' tu,' thou : repeated in the MS. 



234 UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS, 

20. Joseph: Of. Note 4 supra. The 'Bee' is probably a 

contraction for ' because.' 

21. Jacob : Cf. Genesis c. xxv. 29-34 and c. xxvii. 19 seqq. 

22. Paul: Cf. Acts c. ix. 3-9. 

23. Philistines : Cf. Judges c. xv. 4. 

24. Fox = John Foxe the Martyrologist. 

25. Michal: Cf. 2 Samuel c. vi. 16 and 20-23. 

26. Peter : Cf. St John c. xviii. 10 : and the parallel pas- 



27. Elishas bears: Cf. 2 Kings ii. 24. 

28. Gaza in MS. is spelled ' Gara ' — Cf. Judges c. xvi. 1-3. 

29. Manasse = Manasseh — Cf. 2 Chronicles c. xxxiii. 1-20. 

30. Jacob: Cf Genesis c. xxxii. 25, 31, 32. 

31. Noah's dove : Cf. Genesis c. viii. 8, 9. 

32. A prayer : Perhaps this pun-wit even in prayer is as 

self-authenticating a characteristic as is to be found 
in these Epigrams. Our "Worthy delighted to play 
on his own name e.g. in ' his own epitaph ' Here lies 
Fuller's earth.' 

33. Cephas: Cf. St John c. i. 42, with St Matthew c. xiv. 30. 

34. Zacheus : Cf. supra note 14. 

35. Musculus: a Memoir of this Eeformer and Scholar is 

given in ' Abel Redevivus.' 

36. Nabal: Cf. 1 Samuel c. xxv. 3, 25. 

37. David's three "Worthies : Cf. 2 Samuel c. xxiii. 9. 

38. Sampson's hair : Cf. Judges c. xvi. 17 seqq. 

39. Sodom : Cf. Genesis xix. 15 seqq. 

40. Naboth : Cf. 1 Kings c. xxi. 1 seqq. 

41. Jacob: Cf. Genesis c. xxv. 22. 

42. Ehud : Cf. Judges iii. 15 seqq. 

43. Israel in the "Wilderness : Cf. Deuteronomy c. xxix. 5. 

44. Perseverance: Cf. Note 29 supra: and Judges vi. 31 

et alibi. 

45. James and John: Cf. St Luke ix. 24, with St Mark 

c. iii. 17. 



UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAMS. 235 

46. Paul's danger : Cf. Acts c. xxviii. 3 seqq. 

47. Jael: Cf. Judges iv. 21, 22. and v. 26. 

48. Query — gay? 

49. HezeMah : Of. 2 Kings xx. 7, 11 : and parallels in 

Isaiah. 

50. Jehosophiat = Jehoshaphat. Cf. 2 Chronicles c. xviii. 

and 2 Chronicles xviii. 31 and xix. 2. 

51. Isaac : Cf. Genesis c. xxii. 12. 

52. Sampson : Cf. supra 11 and 38. 

53. Jeptha's daughter : Cf. Judges c. xi. 30 seqq. 

54. Ely the priest: Cf. 1 Samuel c. iv. 18. 

55. Sampson and John the Baptist : Cf. Judges xiii. 5 with 

St Luke i. 20. 

G. 




APPENDIX. 



FULLEE'S FOEM OF PEAYEE. 




S stated in our Introduction there 
follows here the ' Focm' which our 
Worthy was wont to use in his 
extra-Prayer-Book ' devotions.' 

Concerning it, the rare anonymous 'Life' 
(1662) observes, ' A constant form of prayer he 
used as in his family so in his publique ministry ; 
onely varying or adding upon speciall occasions 
or occurences intervening required, because not 
only hesitation (which the good Doctor for all his 
strength of memory and invention, was afraid of 
before so awful a presence as the majesty of 
heaven) was in prayer more offensive than other 
discourse; but because such excursions in that 
duty, in the extempore way, was become the idol 
of the multitude' (p. 81). The < Form' itself is 
preserved in the exceedingly scarce volume whose 
title-page I now give. 



238 fuller's form of prayer. 

PULPIT SPAEKS 

OR CHOICE 

POEMS 

. OF 

PEAYEE, 

BY SEVERAL 

EEVEEEND and GODLY 

DIVINES 

USED by them, both before 

and after SEEMON. 

WITH other PEAYEES, for 

extraordinary oocasions, 

TOGETHER, 

WITH Dr HEWYTTS, 
last PEAYEE, 

BY, 

Dr Reeve. M. Ball. 

Dr Gillingham. M. Goddard. 

Dr Jer. Taylor. M. Nat. Hardy. 

Dr Heioytt, M. Hall. 

Dr Wilde. M. Jo. Marston. 

Dr Griffith. M. Mackerness. 

Mr Tho. Fuller. M. Sparks. 

London, Printed for W. Gilbert- 
son at the Bible in Giltspur- 
street, 1659. 



FULLER S FORM OF PRAYER. 



239 



The date is 1659 though Mr Eussell [' Memo- 
rials of Fuller '] gives it as 1658. The preface 
' To the judicious, and religious reader' is signed 
' Tho. Beeve 1 — query author of that vivid and 
remarkable folio, ' The Plea of Niniveh' and 
various memorable Sermons.' 

The volume is a very small 12mo. and Fuller's 
Prayer occupies pp. 156-171. G. 




ME T. F. HIS 
PEAYEE. 




ET the Words of my mouth, and the 
thoughts of all our hearts be now 
and ever acceptable in thy sight, 
Lord our strength and our Eedeemer. 

Eternal Lord God, infinite in thy great- 
nesse, incomprehensible in thy glory, whose jrare 
and just Eyes cannot behold either sin or sinners 
with the least look of approbation; be not offended 
with thy servants ; it will be little comfort for 
us in these glorious attributes ; we come to them 
that may tender most consolation to us : Oh Lord 
God, who in Christ Jesus art a mercifull and a 
reconciled Father to all such sinners as sincerely 
from their Souls desire and endeavour to repent 
and believe; thy providence hath brought us 
unto this place to offer unto thy Majesty our 
evening sacrifice of prayer and thanksgiving, 
and to be made partakers of a portion of thy 
most holy Word ; truly Lord we have just cause 



PRAYER. 241 

to fear lest our prayers, instead of that blessing 
we now desire, draw down that curse which they 
deserve upon us ; we have inflamed the corrup- 
tions of our natures with the manifold rebellions 
of our lives, which have been nothing else but 
one constant breach of thy ten comman dements ; 
true Lord, the law in our minds, our spirit, our 
new creature, our regenerate half, our light, clearly 
knows and chearfully acknowledges all and every 
one of thy commandements for pure, and just, 
and holy ; but the law in our members, our 
darknesse, our flesh, our old Creature breaks 
them daily in thought, word, and deed ■ we all 

of us have been foul and flat Idolaters, erecting 

* 

the Idols of our own profit and pleasure in the 
Chapels and Closets of our hearts, and then and 
there have fallen down upon the bended knees of 
our Souls, and worshipt them, by regarding our 
lust more than the fulfilling of thy will in thy 
word ; that sacred name of thine whereby we 
hope to be saved, we have taken in vain ; we have 
done that on thy day, the Lord's day, which we 
can Justine or avouch on no day ; we have not 
given that reverence and respect to our Superiors 
placed over us which thou requirest at our 
hands ; we have broken all the commandements 
of the second Table in our demeanour towards 
our neighbours, and in our deportment to our 

Q 



242 PRAYER. 

own Souls and bodies ; and here Lord we are 
ashamed to confesse the manifold circumstances 
of our sins in the presence and hearing of man, 
who, vile, bold wretches were no whit ashamed 
or afraid to commit them when we knew. full 
well that the high God of Heaven and Earth 
did at that instant behold us ; now lend us of 
thy Spirit effectually to admire at thy patience 
and longsuffering towards us, who permits such 
prophane and presumptuous sinners at this hour 
of our lives still to remain from Hell fire ; surely 
Lord there are many in that pit of perdition, 
whose sins against thee were never aggravated 
with those high circumstances ; Lord, we 
have no variety of reasons to move thee to 
mercy, we have no exchange of motives to per- 
swade thee to pitty, but only the same over and 
over again, for thy own sake, for thy names 
sake, for thy mercies sake, for thy Son and our 
Saviour Christ Jesus his sake forgive our sins, 
for they are great ; wash the guilt & filth of 
our sins away in his blood ; and Lord for the 
time to come give us grace to spend the re- 
mainder of our dayes in our several Callings to 
thy glory; Lord grant that we may not only 
labour to have our sins pardoned to us, but also 
strive to have so much favour with thee, that 
before our deaths we may have our sins forgive- 



PRAYER. 243 

ness assured ; for our comfort, grant Lord that 
we may betake our selves to do the one thing 
necessary ; let us not have our oyl to buy when 
we should have it to burn ; teach us Lord that 
sicknesse is a time not to do but to sutler ; and 
gracious Lord grant that our work being done, 
and the books crost in the times of our healths, 
we may be comforted when we come to dye, and 
to resign our Souls into the hands of a faithfull 
Creator and gracious redeemer. Blesse us with 
thy whole Church scattered far and wide over 
the face of the whole Earth ; Lord, what parti- 
culars to pray for, we know not, we dare not, 
we humbly tender a blank into the hands of an 
almighty God ; write therein Lord what thou 
wilt, when thou wilt, where thou wilt, by whom 
thou wilt, only in thine own time work out 
thine own honour and glory ; in the mean time 
give us faith to believe it, patience to expect, 
diligence to observe, and zeal to pray fervently 
for it ; to this end blesse all those whom thine 
own self in lawfull authority hast placed over, 
us, by what name or title soever known unto 
us ; blesse their counsels and consultations, and 
make them under thy self the happy instru- 
ments of the good of this Nation. Be present 
with us and President amongst us, at this time 
in the hearing and handling of thy holy Word ; 



244 PRAYER. 

Lord let not the manifold corruptions and the 
more imperfections of thy servant hinder the 
operation of thy word, but give me to speak it 
plainly to every capacity, methodically to every 
member, effectually to every conscience that shall 
be here present, so that it may sink in all our 
hearts, and bring forth fruit in the amendment 
of our lives and conversations. This, and what 
else thy wisdome sees fitter for us than we can 
aske or desire, we beg at thy hands in the name 
and mediation of Jesus Christ. Our Father, etc. 




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